Cockfield v. Farley

This is a contest between'mortgage creditors for the proceeds of the sale of the mortgaged property in the hands of the sheriff.

At the succession ^alo of William. Cockfield, Mrs. Martha T. Myers purchased a tract of land in the parish of Natchitoches, and in evidence of part of the purchase price she executed the note held by plaintiff, payable first May, 1861, for $6333 331, with eight per .cent, per annum interest from maturity, securing the same by special mortgage on the plantation bought.

On twelfth May, 1859, she sold the plantation to John L. Lewis, who assumed the payment of said…