Brinkley v. Hughes

Opinion by

Judge Ward:

ijn January, 1883, W. B. Hughes executed to appellant, M. F. Brinkley, a note for $523.03, and to secure its payment gave him a mortgage on certain household goods, including a set of furniture and a piano. Brinkley instituted this suit to subject the mortgaged property to the. payment of his debt.

Alice Hughes, the wife of W. B. Hughes, filed her petition and claimed the property. She says that she was married to W. B. Hughes in 1874; that they lived together as man and wife until March, 1883, when, for cause unknown to her, her husband abandoned her, leaving her with two…