Quackenbush v. Reed

Temple, C.

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage dated December 8, 1887, executed by Hugh Boyle, now deceased. Defendant Carmelita Natividad Boyle is the widow of Hugh Boyle, and was the wife of the decedent at the time of the execution of the mortgage, April 29, 1872. She, being then the wife of Hugh Boyle, made a declaration of homestead, which was in due form and properly acknowledged and duly filed for record in the recorder’s office of Marin county, where the property is situated, in which the mortgaged premises were claimed as a homestead. The mortgage was executed by the husband…