De Wolf v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Kentucky. This was a bill filed by the appellant, De Wolf, in the Court below, on the 4th of September, 1818, for a foreclosure of a mortgage given by Prentiss, one of the respondents, on the 7th of July, 1817, to secure the repayment of the sum of 62,000 dollars.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Kentucky. This was a bill filed by the appellant, De Wolf, in the Court below, on the 4th of September, 1818, for a foreclosure of a mortgage given by Prentiss, one of the respondents, on the 7th of July, 1817, to secure the repayment of the sum of 62,000 dollars. The bill alleged, that the mortgagor had conveyed his equity of redemption to W. T. Barry, by a deed of trust dated the 16th of March, 1818, describing the lands as “ all those tracts or parcels of land described and qontained in a deed of mortgage from the said J. Prentiss to the said J. De Wolf,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
This cause has been discussed very much at large, and with a degree of talent, candour, and research, very satisfactory to the Court. In proceeding to consider it, however, we. think it advisable to deviate from the order in which the points were examined at the bar, and to pursue them as they arise in the progress of the suit.
In the year 1818, the complainant filed this bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for Keutucky, to obtain a foreclosure of a mortgage given to secure the sum of sixty-two thousand dollars, and bearing date July 7, 1817. The debt secured was payable by…
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