Case by same name in ET 99, but has a different county. Add. defendant: S. A. Brooks. In 1865, the plaintiff purchased from L. N. Homer a tract of land for which he was executed a bond. The property is very valuable for the water power and sought to build a grist mill and brought in the defendant to help fund it as security and advancing him $2,000. The plaintiff executed to him a deed of trust, but the defendant has failed to keep up his end of the negotiated contract.