Smith v. Woolfolk
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL' FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED. STATES FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The bill in this case was filed by Joseph S. Woolfolk to foreclose a mortgage executed to him by William H. Todd, the intestate of L. H. Springer, one of the appellants, upon the Belleview plantation situate in Chicot County, Arkansas.
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APPEAL' FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED. STATES FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The bill in this case was filed by Joseph S. Woolfolk to foreclose a mortgage executed to him by William H. Todd, the intestate of L. H. Springer, one of the appellants, upon the Belleview plantation situate in Chicot County, Arkansas. The record disclosed the following facts; Junius W. Craig, a citizen of Arkansas and'the owner of the Belleview plantation, had, on December 5, 1856, mortaged it to Mrs. Lucy D. Craig, the widow of his brother, to secure $41,666 owing by him to. her. Some time after the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
The decree of the Circuit Court was justified by the facts appearing of record, unless one or- both of the defences set up in the answers of Smith were maintained.
We shall consider first the defence of set-off based upon the record of the proceedings and decree of the Circuit Court of Chicot County.
We are of opinion that the decree of the Chicot Circuit Court, made on the 28th day of October, 1878, was, so far as it concerned Joseph S. Woolfolk and Lucy D., his wife, a final decree in the cause, and they were bound to take no notice…
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