Brown v. Willis

The findings show that on the 2d day of September, 1878, an action was commenced in the late District Court of the eighteenth judicial district by one Aldrich against the plaintiff and defendant to the present action, H. M. Willis and Joseph Brown, and Amelia Willis, Jr., to foreclose a mortgage that had been given by H. M. Willis as security for a note executed by him to one Drew, Drew having assigned the note and mortgage to Aldrich. Brown was made a party to that action because he held, as assignee, a subsequent mortgage upon the same premises that had been given by Willis to secure a note…