Curyea v. Berry

This was a bill in chancery, in the circuit court of Moultrie county, by George Curyea, Harmon K. Wells and Jonathan Christie, complainants, and against Lewis J. Berry and William Berry, defendants, to foreclose a mortgage on a certain forty acres of land, which Berry, then seized thereof in fee, had made" to one James Elder, who assigned the same, with the note it was made to secure, to Wells and Christie. It was claimed by complainants that regular proceedings were had in the Moultrie circuit court, in 1861, foreclosing this mortgage in the name of 'the assignees, a regular decree entered…