MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
Antecedent to the claim of the respondent, the unincumbered fee-simple title of the premises was in the father of the complainant. On the 26th of April, 1858, the owner of the tract, consisting of a farm of eighty acres, being indebted to the respondent in the sum of $1,075, mortgaged the farm to him to secure the payment of that sum.
Sufficient also appears to show that the fee-simple owner of the premises...
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