M'Clure v. M'Cormick

In 1824, Samuel McCormick, the defendant in error, was seised and possessed of two tracts of land, situate in Switzerland county, containing about four hundred and ninety acres ; during that year he executed to one Dow a mortgage of part of the premises to secure the payment of 116 dollars, and to one Patterson a mortgage on all the land for 300 dollars.

In 1826, the mortgages being entirely unsatisfied, and bills to foreclose them being pending in the Switzerland Circuit Court, James H. and John McClure obtained judgment against Samuel McCormick in that Court for 205 dollars. In the latter…