Brighton v. White

The appellee’s complaint is founded upon a note and mortgage executed by Alexander Brighton and Catherine Brighton to the Commercial Bank of Brazil, Indiana, and by the bank assigned to the appellee. The appellants, Croasdale, Jones and Sowers, were made defendants to answer as to their interest in the mortgaged premises.

The answers of the appellants are substantially the same upon the material point involved, although they severed in their defences so that a synopsis of one answer will sufficiently exhibit the question which controls this phase of the case. The answers allege that the note…