Jones v. Naughright
New Jersey Court of Chancery
The bill was filed on the 6th of May, 1851. John Naughright answered the bill. The other defendants did not answer. Depositions were taken on both sides.
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The bill was filed on the 6th of May, 1851. John Naughright answered the bill. The other defendants did not answer. Depositions were taken on both sides. The case made by the bill is this : On the Ed of March, 1848, John Frone and wife executed a mortgage upon certain lands in the county of Morris, the subject of this suit, to secure the sum of $400. On the 4th of March, 1848, John Frone confessed a judgment in the Circuit Court of the county of Morris for the sum of $573.52, to Eve Frone, his mother. The said land was sold by the sheriff, and was purchased by Eve Frone, for the sum of $300…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The complainant, under a judgment and execution in his favor against John Frone, purchased about forty acres of land in the county of Morris, and the same was conveyed to him by the sheriff of the county. The defendant, John Naughright, holds a mortgage on the same property to secure the principal sum of six hundred dollars and interest, which was given by John Frone to J ohn Sharp, and which was afterwards assigned to John Naughright. J ohn Naughright holds, also, another mortgage on the same premises, executed to him by John Frone to secure the principal sum of $400 and…
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