Havens v. Jones

This is a suit to. foreclose a mortgage given by Whitney Jones. Louisa S. Jones is made a party defendant, but who she is or how connected with the mortgage or with the equity or redemption the bill does not show. She was therefore not a proper party.

The principal controversy between complainant and Whitney Jones relates to the question whether anything remains unpaid on the mortgage. It was given in 1855 to secure the payment of a promissory note of $5500, and interest at seven per centum. The amount of this note was reduced to $1000 by *254payments, at which sum it stood in 1860. From that time…