SEVIER v. HASKELL


81 U.S. 12 (1871)

14 Wall. 12

SEVIER v. HASKELL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Mr. Justice SWAYNE stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.

The case, so far as it is necessary to state it, was a proceeding in equity to foreclose a mortgage given by the intestate of Sevier to the intestate of Haskell, to secure the payment of four promissory notes therein described, and the accruing interest. The answer set up as a defence that the consideration of the notes was the purchase of eighty-five...

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