Valentine v. Fish

This was a bill in chancery, exhibited in the Will Circuit Court, by Daniel Valentine, Archibald, Jesse and Edward McAllister, against Henry Fish, to compel him to deliver up to be canceled a certain mortgage and notes which the McAllisters had theretofore executed to the defendant to secure a loan of $5,000 made by the defendant to them, on the allegation that the loan was at usurious interest, and that the whole debt, exclusive of the usury, had been fully paid. Valentine’s right to join in the bill of com'plaint is based on the fact, that he has purchased the equity of redemption by deed,…