Bentley v. Goodwin

Tlie appellants brought suit upon a promissory note and for foreclosure of a mortgage securing it. The note was executed by appellee Calvin E. Goodwin and the mortgage by him and his wife, Elizabeth, on January 8, 1880. Appellee Elizabeth answered setting up that she and her codefendant intermarried October 30, 1849, and were husband and wife at the time said mortgage was executed. That she was then the owner and in possession of the real estate described in the mortgage and complaint by gift from her husband and still is the owner of the same, and that the note sued on was the debt of her…