Madison, Watertown & Milwaukee Plank Road Co. v. Watertown & Portland Plank Road Co.

By the Court,

Smith, J.

This was a bill filed by the complainants, appellees, against the defendants, appellants, for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage executed by the defendants to the complainants, to secure the payment and interest of three several evidences of debt, called by the complainants “ certain *178instruments in writing, or simple bills,” by wbicb tbe defendants acknowledged themselves to owe, for borrowed money, tbe complainants, or bearer, tbe respective sums of $1,000, $2,000 and $1,000, wbicb said sums tbe defendants promised to pay to tbe complainants in four years from tbe…