Toms v. Boyes

The bill in this case is filed to compel a release or quit-claim, from defendants, of certain lands described in a mortgage dated August 1,1867, made by defendant Boyes to A._D. Griswold, to secure the payment of $510, with interest at ten percent., claimed to be due for the purchase price of said land, or to declare a first lien thereon and a sale thereof to satisfy such lien.

The mortgage was duly assigned in November, 1867, by Griswold to George Jerome, and by him, in July, 1869, to Robert P. Toms. The mortgage and assignments were duly *388recorded, shortly after their respective dates, in the…