Magee v. Sanderson

Action to foreclose a mortgage. The complaint alleges that one Elijah Barret, on the 16th of April, 1853, executed to William Butler and Thomas Slocum, a mortgage, conveying to them a tract of land. therein described, as security for'the payment of a debt, evidenced by a note amounting to 86 dollars, payable one month after date, with interest at the rate of ten per centum from date; that the contract was made in Ohio, and that by an act of the legislature of that state, approved March the 30th, 1850, it is enacted “That the parties to any bond, bill, promissory note, or other instrument of…