Shattuck v. Cox

The facts stated in the appellee’s complaint are, in substance, these: On the 19th day of April, 1872, the appellant was indebted to John Collier in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, and to secure the payment of the debt executed a mortgage on land in Sullivan county. In October, 1873, Collier instituted a suit to foreclose the mortgage, and on the 21st day of January, 1874, obtained a judgment for $2,210.75, and a decree of foreclosure.. On the 29th day of August, of that-year, Collier bought the land at the sale made by the sheriff upon the decree, and received a certificate. He bid…