Bank v. Johnson

Mtnshall, O. J.

Joshua W. Johnson being indebted to the New Vienna Bank in the sum of $1,628, execubed, December 30, 1885, a mortgage to the bank to secure the same, which was duly filed for record the following day. The bank was a partnership doing business in that name. The mortgage covered two tracts of land, one containing 71 and a fraction, and the other 38 and a fraction, acres, and purported to convey “ all the estate, title and interest ” of said Johnson in and to said lands “ to the said New Vienna Bank, its successors and assigns forever,” without other words of limitation.…