James v. Morey
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The hill in the Court below was filed by James against Johnson and Morey. Issue was joined, and proofs taken ; upon which the cause was heard by the Chancellor, who decreed in favor of the defendants. From this decree James appealed.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The hill in the Court below was filed by James against Johnson and Morey. Issue was joined, and proofs taken ; upon which the cause was heard by the Chancellor, who decreed in favor of the defendants. From this decree James appealed. The facts material to the various points raised by the counsel, and decided, both by the Court below, and in this Court, are stated in the opinions of the Judges, and of Cramer, Senator. - The report of the same case as adjudged in the Court below is in 6 John. Ch. Rep. 417. The title there in James v. Johnson and Morey. The…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodworth, J.
On the 17th June, 1817, Caleb Johnson gave a mortgage to James O. Wattles, to secure the payment of $12,000. On the 2d August, 1817, a judgment was docketted in favor of Wattles against Johnson for $2000. Executions issued on this, and three other judgments, (all subsequent to the mortgage,) and on the 20th April, 1818, the mortgaged premises were sold in separate parcels. William H. Sabin purchased the first .parcel for $205, which, at the time of sale, was worth $2000. Wattles purchased the residue at $440.
The facts stated.
The value of the mortgaged premises appears to have • been somewhere…
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