22 Mo. 502 | Mo. | 1856
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a petition brought by the assignee of a mortgage against the heirs and widow of the mortgagor, praying judgment for the debt, that the equity of redemption be foreclosed, and that the mortgaged land be sold in the manner provided for by the statute of the state.
Ezra S. Ely sold the land to Smith, who afterwards died. Ely took from Smith the mortgage for”the unpaid purchase money, which was secured also by the notes of Smith. Ely assigned the mortgage debt to Carswell and McClelland, and they assigned it to plaintiff.
The defendants rely upon the statute of limitations as a bar to the notes given for the debt, and upon an offset of money received by Ely to enter land for Smith, which Ely had author
Upon this ground alone the judgment below must be affirmed, leaving the other matters in the case still to be decided between the parties in another suit, should one be brought;