National Life Insurance v. Fitzgerald

Tliis cause comes here by appeal from a decree foreclosing a real estate mortgage given by John and Mary Fitzgerald to secure the sum of $12,000 due from them to the Clark & Leonard Investment Company. John Fitzgerald is now dead and his widow, Mary Fitzgerald, is the administratrix of his estate. The appellee, the National Life Insurance Company, having succeeded to the rights of the investment company, commenced this *693suit to foreclose its mortgage after the death of Mr. Fitzgerald and while his estate was being administered in the county court. Afterwards, but before the decree of…