Bendey v. Townsend
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE' CIRCUIT COUET OP THE UNITED STATES POE THE WESTERN DISTRICT OP MICHIGAN. Bill in -equity to foreclose a'mortgage. The . suit was commenced in a State court, and was removed to the Circuit Court of the United States, where a foreclosure and sale were decreed. The defendants below appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This is an appeal by James Bendey. and wife from a decree for the foreclosure of a mortgage of land in Michigan, executed' by them at Houghton in that State, on April 30th, 1873, to Samuel S. Smith and William Harris; expressed to be made in consideration of the indorsement by Smith and Harris of sev eral promissory notes of Bendey, therein described, payable to the order of Thomas W. Edwards, at the First National Bank of Houghton; conditioned that Bendey should pay the notes at maturity, and should save and keep harmless the mortgagees “ of and from all costs and charges arising from or on…
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