McKeown v. Collins

Liddon, J.:

The appellee filed his bill of complaint in the court below to foreclose a mortgage executed by one R. W. P. Thomas, deceased. The administrator of such deceased mortgagor, his widow, who had joined in the execution in order to bar her right of dower, and the husband with whom she had since intermarried, together with the appellant, were made parties defendant. The appellant was in the possession of the mortgaged premises claiming title thereto, and the bill sought to cancel and annul a tax deed which he claimed to be a valid title to the premises, and to declare that a sheriff’s…