Hughes v. Worley

*200OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Bibb.

— Hughes had obtained from Ballinger a mortgage, bearing date on the 22d June 1795, on certain real property, for securing the payment of £. 1057 14?. 8d. 1-2, recited to be due by bond of the same date : Worley had become the assignee of a lien on the same property, created by Ballinger in the year 1802. In September 1803, Hughes exhibited his bill against Ballinger, to foreclose the equity of redemption, &c. claiming a balance as due on the mortgage of £. 650 Os. Id. to which bill Ballin-ger’s answer, confessing the statements, was immediately put in, and…