Sanders v. Peck

This suit was commenced October 9, 1874, by appellees filing a bill to reform and foreclose a trust deed .which has been known in the litigation as the Jewett trust deed, and which was made to secure certain bonds therein described of the amount of $1,000,000, of the first $100,000 preferred of which, appellees were owners. To that bill appellant was made a defendant, and after answering, filed his cross-bill, and cross-bills were filed by various other defendants, some of which set up and asserted mortgage liens on the property covered by the Jewett trust deed prior to the lien of said trust…