Ladd & Tilton v. Mason

Opinion by

Watson, C. J.:

*309This suit was brought in the circuit court for Multnomah county by Ladd & Tilton against Geo. ~W. Johnson and M. E. Johnson, his wife, DeLaslimutt & Oatman, and several other parties, to foreclose a mortgage given by Johnson and wife to Ladd & Tilton, to secure the payment of a certain promissory note, dated March 31, 1876, for the sum of six hundred dollars, executed by Johnson to Ladd & Tilton as agents. The mortgage was executed contemporaneously with the note and contained the following description of the property intended to be mortgaged:

“Situate, lying and being…