Willard v. Van Leeuwen

The plaintiff brought suit to recover from the defendant the amount of a deficiency arising from a sale under a decree in chancery in a foreclosure suit. Defendant was not a party to that suit. The trial was had before the circuit judge without a jury, who found the following facts : That about October 8,1875, Cornelius Kloppenburg executed to plaintiff a bond conditioned to pay her $500 on the 8th day of October, 1880, with interest at ten per cent., to be paid semi-annually until paid, which bond was secured by mortgage upon real estate executed by the obligor and his wife upon land in Kent…