Supreme Court of Alabama January 15, 1872 (Merritt v. Phenix)

B. F. SAFFOLD, J.

The purpose of the bill was the foreclosure of a mortgage of land which the appellant Merritt had executed to the complainant Phenix. It is alleged that after the mortgage was given, Merritt sold the land to Joel M. Talbot, who sold to Arthur Hoyt and Joel Lockley. Lockley sold his interest to William B. Hoyt. The two Hoyts mortgaged the property to H. J.