Fletcher v. Holmes

The appellant was the plaintiff below. The complaint alleged that he was the owner by assignment, *460made November 28, 1855, of a judgment for $6,960 68, rendered in favor of the Peru and Indianapolis Railroad Company against one AUen May, on the 22d day of November, 1855, which was a lien on certain real estate of May’s, and unpaid except the sum of $950; that one Pugh held a mortgage on the same lands, executed by May, constituting a prior lien thereon; that on the 8th of July, 1857, Pugh, by judgment of the Marion Circuit Court, foreclosed his mortgage and recovered judgment against May for…