Orchard v. Hughes. Id. v. Id

68 U.S. 73

17 L.Ed. 560

1 Wall. 73

ORCHARD

v.

HUGHES.

Id.

v.

Id.

December Term, 1863

THESE were, in form, two causes; though in fact, two branches of one case, which were heard and disposed of together; both of them coming here on appeal from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Nebraska, to which tribunal they had been taken by appeal from the District Court for the same Territory.

A suit had been brought by Hughes, the appellee in this court, against Orchard, the appellant, to foreclose a mortgage. Orchard set up by way of answer, that a part of the consideration of the mortgage consisted of the…