Ely v. Porter

This action was brought in the Adair Circuit Court to recover the amount charged to be due on five promissory notes alleged to have been executed by the defendant, William T. Porter on the 10th day of July, 1866, for the payment to the plaintiff of five hundred dollars each, and also to foreclose the equity of redemption in certain real estate which, it was charged, had been mortgaged to plaintiff by a deed of mortgage executed at the same time with the execution of the notes by the defendant, William T. Porter, and in which his wife, Albina Porter had joined and relinquished- her dower to…