New Jersey Patent Tanning Co. v. Turner

Tub Chancellor.

The bill is filed to foreclose a mortgage for $5000, given by Turner and wife to Michael Righter, assigned by him (on the sixth of July, 1854,) to Robert Dod, and by Dod assigned to the complainants.

The defence is usury. The mortgagor, by his answer admitting the execution of the bond and mortgage, denies that he was indebted to Righter in $5000, or in any other sum, at the time of the execution of the mortgage, but states, that being in want of money, and wishing to procure a loan, he applied to one Stille Manning for a loan of $5000; that Manning told him he thought the money…