Silva v. Serpa

Vanclief, C.

—The action was to foreclose two mortgages executed to the plaintiff by the defendant Joaquin S. Serpa to secure payment of his promissory notes, the first mortgage, dated June 2, 1885, to secure fifteen hundred dollars, with interest, and the second, dated September 14, 1885, to secure six hundred dollars. The respondent Maria L. Serpa was made defendant on the alleged ground that she had, or claimed to have, some interest in or lien upon the mortgaged property subject to the mortgage. The mortgagor, Joaquin S. Serpa, in person, without an attorney, demurred generally to the…