Bennett v. Matson

This was a bill in chancery, exhibited by ¡Nehemiah Matson, in the Bureau Circuit Court, against George Bennett, Arvis Chapman, Claramon Flint, Willard Shumway, John Whittington, James T. Stevens and William Hall Jenkins, to foreclose a mortgage. The bill was filed July 15, 1861. The prominent facts of the case are these: George Bennett was the owner of two certain tracts of land, particularly described, situate in the county of Bureau. On the 81st of August, 1854, Bennett conveyed both tracts to John Whittington, who, on the same day, mortgaged the same to Bennett to secure the sum of…