Excerpt from Reports of Cases Determined in the Court of Chancery, and in the Prerogative Court, And, on Appeal, in the Court of Errors and Appeals, of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 On the l3th October, 1840, The American Life and Fire Insurance and Trust Company filed their bill against Peter M. Ryerson and wife, and others, to foreclose a mortgage, dated July 10th,1835, given by Ryerson and his wife to the said com pany, to secure the payment of a bond of the same date, given by Ryerson to the company, conditioned for the payment Of in five years from date, with interest, payable half yearly; with a provision that in case the interest should at any time be in arrear for ninety days, the whole principal should be forthwith paid. Two years' interest was due when the bill was filed. To this bill Ryerson filed an answer, oii the 24th May 1841, setting up usury. On the 6th of July, 1842, the com pany made an assignment to Patrick mccauley, Geo. F. Talman and Anthony Barclay, in trust, 850. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.