Francis v. Porter

Porter, the defendant in error, brought his bill in chancery, against Thompson W. and Noah Francis, for the foreclosure of a mortgage. They failed to answer, and he obtained a final decree, upon taking the bill as confessed; to reverse which this writ of error is brought.

The bill states that, in 1841, the plaintiff owned two tracts of land, containing eighty acres each, which he had mortgaged to the state to secure the repayment of a loan of 500 dollars borrowed from the sinking fund; that he sold and conveyed one of said tracts to Thompson W. Francis for 1,000 dollars, 500 dollars of which…