Central Bank v. Copeland
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity side of the Circuit Court for1 Frederick county. A mortgage was executed, February 25th, 1856, by George W. Copeland and Mary Ann E. Copeland, his wife, of a mill and mill-seat, the real estate of the wife, to Thomas and McPherson, to secure a debt for money paid and drafts accepted of $3900, due by the husband to the mortgagees.
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Appeal from the Equity side of the Circuit Court for1 Frederick county. A mortgage was executed, February 25th, 1856, by George W. Copeland and Mary Ann E. Copeland, his wife, of a mill and mill-seat, the real estate of the wife, to Thomas and McPherson, to secure a debt for money paid and drafts accepted of $3900, due by the husband to the mortgagees. The acknowledgment and separate examination of the wife, appear duly certified to by the justice, in the usual form prescribed by the Act of 1830, ch. 164. The mortgagees, subsequently, on the 10th of April 1856, conveyed the mortgaged premises…
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
The proceedings upon which this appeal was taken, were had upon a bill filed to obtain a decree for the sale of property belonging to Mary Ann E. Copeland, described in the mortgage executed by her husband, George W. Copeland, and herself, to secure the payment of an antecedent debt due from him to McPherson and Thomas. The answer of Mrs. Cope*317land, although admitting the execution and acknowledgment of the mortgage, puts its validity in issue, on the ground, that she was forced to execute and acknowledge it by threats and menaces, which, from feeble health and a shattered nervous system, she…
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