Gorton v. Paine

The appellants filed their bill in the Circuit Court of the State of Florida, for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, in Duval county, to foreclose a mortgage executed by Paine and wife, the defendant, Sarah A. Day, in possession under foreclosure proceedings before that time had, as a second and prior mortgagee, being made a defendant. This is the case made by the bill. After the entry of an order taking the bill as confessed, the defendant, Sarah A. Day, set up by way of answer that she was the owner of the real estate upon which plaintiffs sought to foreclose their mortgage by virtue of a deed…