Brooks v. Martin

This was a bill in chancery, in the Winnebago circuit court, exhibited by William. T. H. Brooks, plaintiff in error, against Warrick Martin and others, defendants in error, to foreclose two certain mortgages executed by DeLorma Brooks, one to Isaac N. Phelps and the other to John A. Blanchard, and both assigned by them to William. T. H. Brooks.

The defendant Martin answered the bill, and filed his cross-bill, in which, among other things, he insists that the mortgages have been fully paid and discharged by the maker thereof, DeLorma Brooks, or were paid off with money furnished for that…