Stephen Johnson Field

“ The objection, however, is entirely disposed of by the decree in the state court. The rights of the parties under the conveyance of the defendants to Ladd of January 17, 1877, were fully considered and determined in that case. The conveyance was adjudged to be a mortgage. The rights of the defendants in the property were foreclosed, and the property was ordered to be sold, and was sold, and the sale was confirmed by the court. The conveyance to Ladd as the purchaser at such sale transferred all the estate of the defendants in the property. ”

“ Of the numerous points made by the defendants below, the plaintiffs in error here, only three require notice. The others are either immaterial, or unsupported by the record. The three are these: (1) The ruling of the court on the demurrer of Aurelia to the complaint; (2) the ruling of the court that the decree of the state court was conclusive as to the right of Aurelia to mortgage the property for the debt of her husband; and (3) the ruling sustaining the validity of the sale, under the decree of the state court, entered on the twenty-third of March, 1880. ”