Averill Machinery Co. v. Taylor

This action was instituted to enforce payment of a balance due upon a debt represented by four promissory notes, executed by Asa D. Taylor and Susan C. Taylor, and to foreclose a real estate mortgage executed by Susan C. Taylor and purporting to have been given as security for the debt. Several other persons were joined as defendants, but they defaulted, and Asa D. Taylor and Susan C. Taylor will be designated as defendants. They answered separately, but the answers are substantially the same. Each admits the execution and delivery of the notes and mortgage, and pleads certain affirmative…