Ives v. Citizens' Bank

The plaintiffs sue (by petition filed June 7th, 1858,) to set aside an adjudication made on the 5th of June, 1858, under the following circumstances :

The Citizens’ Bank being the holder of a stock note of the present plaintiffs, Mrs. Ives and her husband, secured by mortgage on a plantation and slaves be*84longing to Mrs. Ives, and payable in annual installments of five hundred and twenty-five dollars each, on the 1st of January of each year, according to the charter of the Bank, — the said Mrs. Ives & husband having failed to pay the installment due the 1st January, 1858, — instituted suit by…