Supreme Court of Virginia March 23, 1815 (Chapman v. Armistead)

The president pronounced the court’s opinion.

This case, though very elaborately argued by counsel, on both sides, lies within a narrow compass. The two important questions to be decided are, first, what is the nature of the possession of the mortgagor, in relation to the mortgagee 5 and, secondly, what will be the effect of a judgment *396for the plaintiff upon the rights of the defendants