Burns v. Anderson

This was a suit by the appellant, against the appellees, to foreclose a certain mortgage, executed by the latter to the former, and to collect the amount due on a promissory note, executed by said James Anderson to the appellant, and secured by said mortgage. The note was for four thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dol*182lars and eighty cents, was dated on the 23d day of October, 1873, and was payable twenty-four months after date.

The appellees jointly answered by a general denial of the complaint, with an agreement of record that all matters of defence or replication should be admitted…