Hammond v. Paxton

The bill of complaint was filed in this case to foreclose a mortgage executed by the defendants John Paxton and Sarah S. Paxton to secure the payment of a promissory note given by John Paxton to Charles W. Hammond for borrowed money. The note and mortgage bear date the 15th day of April, 1873, and the mortgage was recorded on the 3d day of May, 1873, and covered the undivided one-half of two parcels of land in Monroe county, Michigan: one parcel known as the Jefferson S. Bond farm, containing 49-^ acres lying in the town of Raísinville ; the other, *395known as the “ dock property,” in the city…