Conwell v. McCowan

A bill in chancery was filed at the June term, 1864, of the Mason circuit court, by defendants in error, to foreclose a mortgage against Conwell, given to secure the payment of a note to Reuben Thompson, and on which McGowan and others were sureties. A decree was rendered in favor of McGowan, authorizing a sale of the mortgaged premises, and out of the proceeds the master in chancery was authorized to pay the costs of the proceeding and expenses of the sale, and to pay the solicitor ten dollars, which he had advanced, and to pay him one hundred and twenty-five dollars as a solicitor’s fee,…