Drum & Ezekiel v. Bryan

The original bill in this case was filed September 3, 1897. It sought, in the alternative: *396(1) To set aside a foreclosure sale of a mortgage, and to be allowed to redeem; and (2) to cancel tbe foreclosure deed as.a cloud on complainant’s, title, on tbe ground that tbe mortgage debt was fully paid when tbe forclosure was bad. Tbe chancellor granted tbe relief prayed, and on appeal that decree was reversed, on the grounds that as a bill to set aside tbe foreclosure and to redeem it was filed too late, more than two years after tbe foreclosure, and that as a bill to- remove a cloud from title it…