Cecil v. Spurger

This is a suit brought to foreclose a mortgage, given to secure the payment of a note for three hundred and five dollars, made by Spurger to Cecil, administrator of Eckols. The note was given, it would seem, for the price of a negro belonging to the estate of the plaintiff’s intestate, sold by Cecil, as administrator, to the defendant. The defendant filed his answer to the amended petition, which, on motion of the plaintiff, was stricken out for insufficiency, and a final judgment rendered for the debt and for the foreclosure of the mortgage, from which the defendant appealed to this court.

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