Newman v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
Ow appeal from the superior court of chancery ; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. This was a bill filed in vice-chancery court at Natchez by Newman, administrator, &c., against Mary Williams, S. B. Williams, Lewis Williams, G. G. Torry, and J. W. Darden, and the bill charges that on the 24th November, 1840, Mary Williams and Stephen B. Williams made their note for $5,000 in favor of Lewis Williams, due 1st January, 1848; and on the same day they made a mortgage, to secure this…
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Ow appeal from the superior court of chancery ; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. This was a bill filed in vice-chancery court at Natchez by Newman, administrator, &c., against Mary Williams, S. B. Williams, Lewis Williams, G. G. Torry, and J. W. Darden, and the bill charges that on the 24th November, 1840, Mary Williams and Stephen B. Williams made their note for $5,000 in favor of Lewis Williams, due 1st January, 1848; and on the same day they made a mortgage, to secure this note and others, to said Lewis Williams. • On the 25th November, 1840, Lewis Williams transferred this note by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hakdy
This was a bill filed by the appellant in the district chancery court at Natchez, and taken by appeal to the superior court of chancery, from which it is brought here. It is a bill to foreclose a mortgage, and the case made by the record is as follows:—
In November, 1840, Mary Williams and Stephen B. Williams executed their promissory note to Lewis Williams for five *220thousand dollars to become due in January, 1848, and at the same time executed a mortgage to secure this note and others. Shortly after this, Lewis Williams transferred the note by in-dorsement and delivery to the complainant’s…
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