Nevitt v. Bacon
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Superior Court of Chancery. Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. This bill was filed by the appellees against the appellants, on the 7th day of May, 1855, and alleged in substance, that on the 26th day of May, 1847, the appellant, J. B. Nevitt, made his three promissory notes to the Planters’ Bank; the first due in one year from that time, the second in two years, and the third in three years.
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Appeal from tbe Superior Court of Chancery. Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. This bill was filed by the appellees against the appellants, on the 7th day of May, 1855, and alleged in substance, that on the 26th day of May, 1847, the appellant, J. B. Nevitt, made his three promissory notes to the Planters’ Bank; the first due in one year from that time, the second in two years, and the third in three years. That to secure the payment of these notes, the said Nevitt on the same day executed to said Planters’ Bank, a mortgage conveying to said bank certain land and slaves therein mentioned and…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This was a bill filed by the appellees in the Superior Court of Chancery, on the 7th May, 1855, to foreclose a mortgage made by the appellant, bearing date the 26th May, 1841, to secure three promissory notes of the same date, to become due, one in one year, the next in two years, and the third in three years from that date.
The bill states that the appellant had made a prior mortgage upon the same property embraced in this mortgage, to James Brown, who filed his bill in the District Chancery Court at Natchez for a foreclosure, and that the appellees, upon their application, were made parties…
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