Ellis v. Johnson

Black, C.

The appellee brought suit in the Superior Court of Marion county, his complaint consisting of fourteen paragraphs, to foreclose fourteen mortgages, each on one of fourteen lots in an addition to the city of Indianapolis, and to obtain a personal judgment against George W. Ellis upon notes secured by said mortgages, being four notes to each mortgage, payable in three, four, five and six years from their date. Said notes and mortgages were executed for the purchase-money of said lots by one Yajen and his wife to one Post in 1872.

It was alleged that Yajen afterwards sold an undivided…