Patterson v. Pope

Judge Marshall

delivered the following Opinion of the Court in this case, on the 31st of October last; but a petition for a rehearing was afterwards presented, by which the decision was suspended, and the case remained under advisement until this day, when the petition being overruled, the Opinion became final.

In 1807, Mrs. Chinn, afterwards Mrs. Hughes, sold and conveyed to Asa Wilgus, about ninety-six acres of land, and took a mortgage on the same, for securing the payment of the purchase money, which was to be completed in 1813.

In 1812 and 1816, Wilgus sold and, by two deeds, conveyed the…