Bodine v. Morgan

The Chancellor.

This suit is brought to foreclose a mortgage for $5,000 and interest, on land in Camden county. The mortgage was given in September, 1869, by Jonathan H. Morgan and his wife to the complainant, who took it in trust for his business firm of Bodine, Thomas & Co., of Williamstown, in that county, as security for the payment of $5,000, which they claimed was due to them from Morgan and his son, Amos F., then known as Frank Morgan, for the alleged fraudulent taking and appropriating to their own use of business orders of the firm, payable in goods, and goods of the firm. The firm,…