Reynolds v. Crawfordsville First National Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was a bill in equity to. quiet title and restrain waste, filed by the appellee, The First National Bank of Crawfordsville, Indiana, against the appellant, Harris Reynolds.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was a bill in equity to. quiet title and restrain waste, filed by the appellee, The First National Bank of Crawfordsville, Indiana, against the appellant, Harris Reynolds. The bill alleged in substance that on August 18, 1875, Reynolds was indebted to the bank in the sum of $7,000, which was evidenced by. his note of that date and amount, with Isaac H. Yance and James H. Watson as sureties ; and that on the day just mentioned, in order to indemnify the sureties, Reynolds executed a mortgage on certain real…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
The first complaint of the appellant is that the court overruled his motion to dismiss the bill, the appellee having failed to file a replication to the answer within the time prescribed by the equity rules. The motion was properly denied. The sixty-sixth equity rule provides that “ whenever the answer of the defendant shall not be exceptedjo, or shall be adjudged or deemed insufficient, the plaintiff shall file the general replication thereto on or before the next succeeding rule day thereof. . . . If the plaintiff shall omit or…
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