Walker's Adm'x v. Farmers' Bank
Supreme Court of Delaware
Appeal from Court of Chancery. Affirmed. The administratrix of William Walker, deceased, filed a bill against the Farmers’ Bank of the State of Delaware to have a deed absolute in form declared a mortgage, and for an accounting. Decree was rendered for defendant, the Chancellor delivering the following opinion :
1Opinion of the Court
Saulsbury, Ch.
On the eighth day of November, 1873, William Walker executed a bond and mortgage, in favor of the president, directors, and company of the Farmers’ Bank of the State of Delaware, for the sum of $22,406.37. Mrs. Walker joined in the mortgage. Fifteen different parcels of land were conveyed by this mortgage. An amicable scire facias was docketed between the Bank and Walker and wife on this mortgage, the twenty-third day of March, 1876, and judgment thereon was recovered by the bank against them for the said sum of $22,406.37, with interest from April 18, 1875. The interest due by…
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