Locklair v. Raybourn

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Eishburne.

The defendant appeals from a decree foreclosing a certain purchase money mortgage of real estate executed and delivered by him to the plaintiff on or about May 15, 1936. The mortgage secured a note of the defendant given at the same time, in the sum of $2,000.00, drawing interest.

The defendant excepts upon several grounds. The main contention seems to arise from the disallowance of his counterclaim wherein he claims damages in the sum of two thousand dollars. In support of the counterclaim he introduced evidence purporting to show…