Reed v. . Kinnaman

Pearson J.

The equity of the plaintiff is this : he owed a debt of about $90, for which the defendant, Kinnaman, had been for many years his surety, holding a mortgage upon a tract of land, on which the plaintifflevied for security. In'1844, the plaintiff received his note, and substituted the defendant Snider as his surety on the note, in place of Kinnaman, and intended to execute to Snider a mortgage on the same land for security : but by the ignorance or mistake of the draftsman, one John C. Blum, the deed was drawn so as to convey an absolute estate, and was not.in the form of a mortgage.…