Monroe's Trustee v. Monroe

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson

Affirming.

Mrs. Martha H. P. Monroe and bier husband, A. Leight Monroe, desire to borrow a sum of money to educate their youngest daughter, and to execute a mortgage to secure the money, on a house and lot on Fourth street in Louisville, the property of Mrs. Monroe.

The question to be determined on this appeal is whether the mortgage will be valid. The question turns on the rights of the parties under the following deed, made shortly before the parties were married:

*113“This instrument, made and entered into .this the 4th •day of September, 1879, by and…