Ruckman v. Alwood

This was a hill in chancery filed in the court below by defendants in error, against plaintiffs in error, to redeem the lands described in the bill, from a conveyance claimed to have been a mortgage. On the hearing below, the deed was declared to be a mortgage, and the sum loaned, with interest, was decreed to be paid, and a conveyance to defendants in error. To reverse that decree, a writ of error was prosecuted by defendants below. On filing the record in this court they assigned errors.

The defendants in error appeared and filed a plea of release of errors. It averred that they, in…