Sumrall v. Reid

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Sumrall and Murphy, in 1821, obtained a judgment at law, by confession, against Waters, for two thousand two hundred twenty eight dollars ninety seven and a half cents, with interest and costs. The judgment not having been satisfied, Sumrall and Murphy filed a bill in chancery to subject a lot in Minerva to sale, for its satisfaction, claiming a lien on the lot in virtue of a mortgage. Ward and Chiles were made defendants to the bill, as thev set up claim to the same lot. In 1825, the court rendered a decree, so much of which as affects this…