Woodruff v. Morristown Institution for Savings

Van Fleet, Y. C.

This action is brought to foreclose three mortgages, all made by Benjamin S. Dean to William Littell. The first is dated June 7th, 1859, and was made to secure $500; the other two were given for $700 each, and bear date, the first, January 7th, 1861, and the second, August 15th, 1861. They originally embraced the same lands, consisting of two tracts, one containing forty-nine and fifteen-hundredths acres, and the other four and seventy-six hundredths acres. On the 23d of April, 1869, Mr. Littell, the mortgagee, at the instance of Mr. Dean, the mortgagor, executed an instrument…