Gordon v. Clarke
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from decree of Court of Chancery, in and for the eounty of Munroe, in the Southern Circuit.
1Opinion of the CourtForward, J.
It appears from the record that in the month of August, A. D. 1836, one F. A. Browne purchased of John Bancroft, Trustee of J. W. Simonton, certain tracts and lots of land in the city of Key West. To secure the payment thereof he gave a promissory note, and executed a mortgage on the same t'-aets and lots of land.
Among the tracts of land thus purchased was one known and described as “ Tract No. 1,” containing fourteen, (14) acres, of which one undivided third part was owned by the appellant, Adam Gordon, who subsequently, about the 1st January, A. D. 1843, purchased the equity of redemption…
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