Matteson v. Morris

These proceedings are for the purpose of foreclosing two mortgages and accompanying notes, one dated February 14, 1873, for $3,469, payable at the expiration of five years, with interest annually at ten per *54cent., and the other dated February 28, 1873, for $1,770, payable in one year, with interest at ten per cent.

These securities purport to be payable to Milo D. Matteson, or order, and are claimed by complainant to have been assigned to him on the 21st of July, 1873.

The bill in ea'ch case sets up that Morris claims the notes and mortgages to be forgeries, and that he also claims that he…