Watson v. Campbell

The defendants move to set aside a judgment of foreclosure entered on the report of a referee. The mortgage appears to have been dated in May, 1852, and acknowledged and recorded in December, 1852, -The commissioners, before whom the acknowledgment" was made, certify that they know the parties making the same. The defendants set up in their answer that the bond and mortgage were forgeries, and that they never signed or authorized any person to ■ sign the same for them. The mortgage conveyed the whole of lot 58, and the right, title and interest of the mortgagor in lot 59, as described in said…