Snow v. Lake's Administrator
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns county. The intestate, Chas. 0. Lake, died after the commencement of the suit, and Walter Lyon was appointed administrator of his estate, and made party complainant. The other tacts oí the case are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chiee-Justice delivered the opinion of the court.
Charles 0. Lake commenced a suit to foreclose a mortgage executed to him by Snow in 1874, upon a lot in St. Augustine, to secure the payment of $1,500', as evidenced by *657several promissory notes executed by Snow to Lake. The mortgage was executed in due form by signing, sealing, witnessing, acknowledgement and delivery, and left for record in the clerk’s office, and duly recorded, according to the clerk’s certificate on the original mortgage.
In February, 1881, as appears by the answer of Long and by the testimony, Snow and wife conveyed the…
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