Gordon v. Swift

The appellee sued the appellants, alleging in his complaint that John Gordon, Sr., John Gordon, Jr., and *213Helen L. Gordon executed to him a promissory note, and that John Gordon, Jr., and Helen L. Gordon executed to him a mortgage on certain real estate to secure the payment of the note. There was a prayer for judgment for four thousand dollars, the foreclosure of the mortgage, and for j udgment against John Gordon, Sr., and John Gordon, Jr., for any amount not made by the sale of the mortgaged premises. One Ferstegge was made a defendant, because he had, or claimed to have, a lien on or claim…