Dircks v. Logsdon

This appeal is from an order overruling exceptions to, and ratifying, a sale made under a power in a mortgage. It appears that on the 26th of March, 1874, John B. Smissing mortgaged sixty acres of land near Cumberland, to Hathan Wilson, to secure a debt of $850. The appellee, Henry Logsdon, claiming to be assignee of this mortgage under an assignment from Wilson, dated the 29th of May, 1879, sold the land on the 5th of February, 1881, and purchased the same himself for $775. Smissing had executed a subsequent mortgage of this, and other parcels of land, to Humbird to secure the sum of $1400,…