Baker v. Bishop Hill Colony

This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Henry Circuit Court, by the Bishop Hill colony, against Jonathan H. Baker and others, to foreclose a mortgage executed by John I. Hall and wife to complainant, and a decree of foreclosure and sale of the mortgaged premises.

To reverse this decree, the defendants have brought the record to this court and assigned several errors.

The principal facts are found in the decree of the Circuit Court, and for convenience we here set it out in full as rendered at the October Term, 1866:

“And now, at this day, comes the complainant, by their solicitor, and the…