Smith v. Newton

This was a bill in chancery exhibited in the Circuit Court of Bureau County, by Sylvester S. ¡Newton against ¡Newton Smith and John D. Dickinson, wherein ¡Newton alleged he was the owner of the east half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-live, (25) in township eighteen (18) north, range seven, (7) east of the fourth principal meridian, lying in Bureau County, the title to which he obtained of Charles W. Shinkle; that the defendant, Smith, claimed to have a mortgage on that tract, made by Shinkle when he owned the land, to Dickinson, to secure a note for five hundred and twenty…