Pensoneau v. Pulliam

The complainant in these proceedings, and the appellant here, having become indebted to sundry persons by note and mortgage, appellees, to befriend him, as it would appear, paid and assumed his liabilities so secured by mortgage, taking, in one case, an assignment of the mortgage, and, in the other, procuring a new mortgage from the complainant directly to themselves. The estate conveyed was incumbered by judgments, taxes, and by a sale for taxes of one portion of it, all of which appellees adjusted or paid off, and appellant relieved therefrom. The mortgage to .appellees, which they first…