Eppes v. Thompson

Appellee, S. E. Thompson, filed the bill in this cause to foreclose a mortgage and for a deficiency decree against appellant in the event a sale of the mortgaged prop erty should fall to produce the amount of appellee’s debt. Appellee, for value and before maturity, had acquired a note and mortgage executed by one Ebersole, the note and mortgage in litigation, by assignment from one Roy O. Thompson, while appellant became involved in the personal liability asserted against him by accepting, as appellee averred in his bill, from the mortgagor Ebersole a deed containing a recital to the effect…