Corning v. Ludlum

The Chancellor.

The petitioner, Susan Horner, was a party defendant to this suit, and had notice by publication, but did not appear. She was, however, represented therein by her sister, Mrs. Buckingham, who, under the will of their father, James Horner, deceased, is her trustee and guardian of the property thereby given to the petitioner, and the petitioner derives her interest in the mortgaged premises from devise to her by that will. She alleges that she had no notice whatever of this suit until after the final decree was entered therein; that she has lately discovered that she has a lawful…