Shelden v. Warner

The bill in this cause was filed to foreclose a mortgage given by Warner to Ransom Shelden and Columbus C. Douglass to secure them as his bondsmen, they having with others become his sureties as receiver of the United States land office at Marquette in the Upper Peninsula. The bonds were executed in 1859. The mortgage was made in April, 1861, and recorded in Houghton county May 16, 1861, and in Chippewa county, September 30,1863. The bill was filed originally by Ransom Shelden and the executors of Douglass, and now stands in the names of the personal representatives of Shelden also, he being…