Bowers v. Roddy

Suit to foreclose chattel mortgage by Marie Roddy against V.B. Bowers, Jr., who filed a counterclaim. From the decree, the defendant appeals.

Affirmed. The appellee, as mortgagee, brought her bill to foreclose a chattel mortgage, to which bill the appellant-mortgagor filed an answer and counterclaim. Upon the cause coming to issue, Chancellor Joe S. White, on April 30, 1948, entered an order of reference to a Master, as follows:

"In view of the need for expediting the disposition of litigation pending in the court, it seems desirable to try a suit in equity at a designated time, very much as a…