Risk v. Hoffman

The complaint by the appellee, against the appellants, in this case, avers the following facts :

That, on the 20th clay of September, 1861, the plaintiff was the owner of certain lands in Ripley county, which are described; that on said day he executed a mortgage on the same to Stephen C. Prebble, to secure a certain indebtedness, set forth in the mortgage; that on the 20th day of April, 1864, the plaintiff and his wife sold and conveyed said lands to Henry H. Wise, who, as a part of the purchase-money therefor, assumed the payment of said indebtedness set out in the mortgage to Prebble, which…