Purviance v. Emley

— On the 25th day of May, 1885, Sexton Emley was the owner of 270 acres of land in Huntington county, and on said day, with his wife, Julia A. Emley, the appellee herein, executed a mortgage on said land to secure a debt of said Sexton Emley to the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company. This mortgage was foreclosed in the Hunt*420ington Circuit Court, January 14,1890, a personal judgment was rendered against Sexton Emley for $5,818.96, and the sale of the land decreed. In the decree it was ordered, at the instance of the wife, that the undivided two-thirds of the land be first offered for sale…