Philbrooks v. McEwen

Suit against husband and wife to foreclose a mortgage made on the 3d of September, 1866, upon real estate, the property of the wife. The mortgage was given to secure accommodation endorsers upon a note of the husband, payable in bank, and executed in August, 1866, for four thousand dollars. By the same instrument, which was executed by both husband and wife, a quantity of personal property of the husband, amply sufficient to pay the debt, was also mortgaged to the endorsers, to secure them for the same liability. It was provided in the mortgage that if the endorsers should obtain an extension…