Pascault v. Cochran

This is a suit to foreclose a mortgage given by William A. Cochran, the defendant, to Catharine II. Pascault, the complainant, as additional security for the payment of $40,000, that sum being the purchase money of a farm in Cecil county, Md., called “Greenfield,” containing about 288 acres of land, which the complainant and her husband (now deceased) had sold and conveyed to Henry S. Cochran, the son of the defendant. The history of the case, as gathered from the bill, answer, and proofs, is as follows: In the early summer of 1871, the complainant, being the owner in her own right of 272…