Morris v. Nixon
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the equity side of the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and arose upon the following facts.
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This was an appeal from the equity side of the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and arose upon the following facts. On the 2d of January, 1812, Jonathan Williams and Thomas Morris .(the complainant) purchased from the Bank of North America a parcel of land upon the Schuylkill river, near the city of Philadelphia, for the sum of $80,000;. $20,000 of which was to be cash, and the remaining $60,000 was divided into three payments of $20,000 each, which were to become due on the 25th of March, 1814, 1815, and 1816, respectively. The parties gave…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr, Justice WAYNE
delivered the opinion of the court.
The . complainant, besides other relief prayed for, asks the aid of this court to decree a deed made by him to Henry Nixon, and which is absolute on the face of it, to be a security for money advanced upon loan, and that he may be at liberty to redeem the premises conveyed^ by paying to Nixon, or by allowing to him, on account of the transactions between -them, the moneys loaned to him by Nixon and such'as he may have advanced on account of the real estate purchased by the complainant and the late General Jonathan. Williams from the Bank of…
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