Cox v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The plaintiff obtained judgment on publication service against the defendants, foreclosing two real-estate mortgages. After the land had been sold on an order of sale and a sheriff’s deed had been executed to the plaintiff, who conveyed the land to a third person, the judgment was opened on a showing that the defendants had had no actual notice of the suit, accompanied by an answer alleging that the amount claimed was not due and that the period of redemption should not have been limited to six months, and offering to pay the amount of the…