West v. Chase

This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Elkhart Circuit Court in August, 1844, by Chase against West.

The bill states that West, on the 7th of December, 1842, contracted to sell to Chase lot No. 66, in Elkhart, for 250 dollars in potter’s ware, for the payment of which sum five notes of 50 dollars each were given; that the note first due was payable on the 1st of March, 1843, and the one last due was payable on the 1st of March, 1844; that West was to make the deed by the 1st of March, 1843, by Chase’s making him a mortgage to secure the notes.

The bill further states that the three notes…