United States v. Williams

McLEAN, Circuit Justice.

This is a bill in equity, to foreclose a mortgage. [See Case No. 16,720.] On the 27th .of June, 1812, the defendant [John R. Williams] executed four several bonds, each for eight hundred dollars, one bond payable annually, with interest. These bonds were given in payment of a tract of land, 267 23-100 acres, in Spring Wells, secured by a mortgage on the premises. The defendant, in his answer, admits the purchase and the mortgage, but alleges that the premises purchased, were, in the fall of 1813, occupied .and used by the troops of the United States, and that they…