Pierson v. Hart

This was an action by the appellees, as plaintiffs, against the appellant and John R. Reeves, John R. Johnson, Ann Snow and Augustus W. Hough, as defendants, to foreclose a certain mortgage, and to correct a mistake in a certain promissory note, the payment of which note, it was alleged, had been secured by the mortgage.

The defendants demurred to the complaint; the demurrer was overruled, and they excepted.

The appellant, Morris Pierson, separately answered, and issues were joined thereon by proper replies.

The other defendants, Reeves, Johnson, Snow and Hough, were then called and defaulted.

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