Gordon v. Lee

The complaint in this case was in the nature of a bill to redeem a lot, or small parcel of land, in the city of Elkhart, from a sheriff’s sale upon the foreclosure of a senior mortgage upon it, and to foreclose a junior mortgage held by the plaintiff.

It was shown by the evidence that Frances M. Rittenhouse and George W. M. Harper, on the 9th day of January, 1872, executed to one Henry Ray a mortgage on the lot in question to secure the payment of a sum of money therein specified; that sometime afterwards Rittenhouse and Harper sold and conveyed the lot to Edwin D. Foster and Charles A.…