McVeigh v. Sherwood

This is a foreclosure case. The mortgage was given by Willis D. Sherwood to Charles R. Brown, upon an eighty acre lot of land, to secure the payment of a promissory note of $500, dated December 22,1869, and due in one year thereafter. Brown, assigned the securities to William D. Sherwood in 1876, and the latter assigned to complainant in May, 1877. This last assignment was for value, and complainant toot the papers in good faith, and in the belief that they were valid securities.

By arrangement between Brown and William D- Sherwood the south part of the eighty acre lot was released from the'…