Kilgour v. Gockley

This was ejectment. At the trial in the court below, appellee (plaintiff) derived title to the premises in controversy from one Samuel Gockley, who died intestate in 1857, leaving him surviving, being his only children and heirs at law, the appellee and three daughters, sisters of appellee. These sisters afterwards conveyed their interest in the land to appellee. Appellant (defendant below) produced in evidence a mortgage upon the land in controversy, executed in June, 1855, by Samuel Gockley to one Galt, to secure two notes for $200 each, payable one in one year and the other in two years…