State Ex Rel. Crawford v. Paul

This is a proceeding in certiorari, original in this court. The cause has been presented upon a‘petition and return thereto.

On February 27, 1929, Rebecca Ann Kane and James Kane, her husband, executed and delivered to Charles Crawford and Emma Crawford, his wife, their promissory note in the sum of one thousand dollars, payable three years after date, and, to secure its payment, executed and delivered to them a mortgage on real property belonging to the mortgagors, situate in Walla Walla county, Washington. Thereafter, Emma Crawford died, whereupon her surviving husband succeeded to all her…