Durkee v. Chambers

This proceeding was commenced in the Circuit Court of Scotland county in 1872, to subject certain lands in that county, to which defendant had the legal title, to the payment of certain claims belonging to the plaintiff.

It seems that one Allen, the father-in-law of the defendant, Chambers, lived in Callaway county, and had a note upon one Woods, for $3,'250.00, dated in 1857 and secured by a mortgage on a tract of land in Scotland county. Suit was instituted on this note and mortgage in 1852, in Scotland couuty, and was pending in 1862, when Allen weut up to Scotland county and sold the note…