Merrin v. Lewis

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in a suit of forcible detainer, by William E. Lewis against Eichard Merrin, to recover possession of a certain quarter section of land. Eichard Merrin, and Andrew J. Merrin, his son, had each, on May 25, 1869, executed to David Mathews separate mortgages of the two eighties of the quarter section, to secure the payment of the purchase money therefor, promissory notes to David Mathews being given by each purchaser for the purchase money of his own eighty. Default having been made in the payment of the notes, the mortgages were foreclosed by a…