State ex rel. Crooks v. Kennett

James W. Crooks, as auditor of Hamilton county, brought this suit to foreclose ar real estate mortgage executed by Joel C. and Eunice Jackson, on the 19th day of October, 1883, to the State of Indiana for the use of the common school fund, to secure the payment of a promissory note calling for $300, and signed by Joel C. Jackson.

Mrs. Eunice Jackson, not having been made a party to the complaint, appeared and by a petition to the court asked that she might be admitted as a party to defend against the foreclosure of the mortgage. She accompanied her petition by an answer in which she exhibited…