M'Lean v. Ragsdale
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Natchez. Hon. B. C. Buckley, vice-chancellor. Cited 4 Cushm. 232; 2 lb. 180 ; 5 S. & M. 354; 29 Maine, 455; Benson v. Stewart, 30 Miss. R. 49. Cited 27 Miss. R. 94; 25 lb. 197; Story, Eq. Bl. § 175, 196.
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This was a bill in chancery to foreclose a mortgage under the following circumstances.
Ephraim A. M‘Lean and his wife on the 15th of June, 1841, executed the mortgage to Ragsdale and Crane, who were his sureties on a note to the Grand Gulf Bank, dated 27th of January, 1841, and due about the 1st of February, 1842. The condition specified in the mortgage was that if M£Lean should well and truly pay or cause to be paid to the bank, the sum of money for which the note was given, and also from time to time and at all times thereafter should save harmless and indemnify the sureties from all…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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