Lanahan v. Lawton

Pitney, V. C.

This is a bill, to foreclose. It is founded on a mortgage executed by the defendant Walter E. Lawton to the complainants’ intestate, John C. Grafflin, to secure $150,000 in three years from -its date. It is dated on the 5th of July, 1884, and was recorded on the 18th of March, 1887, nearly three years later.

The defendant Lawton does not appear, and a decree pro confesso went against him.

The other defendants who have answered are judgment creditors of Lawton, under proceedings in attachment begun March, 17th, 1887, one day before the record of complainants’ mortgage, •and set up…