Buchanan v. Berkshire Life Insurance

On the 20th day of September, 1876, the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, one of the appellees, filed its complaint in the court below, against James Buchanan and wife, William J. Davis and wife, William H. English, Henry Schnull, Albert E. Fletcher, Joseph M. Tilford and wife, and a number of others, to foreclose a mortgage executed to it by Buchanan and wife, and Davis and wife, on the 29th day of December, 1873. This mortgage was executed to secure a $15,000 note of"even date, due five years after date, with five per cent, attorney fees, and interest at ten per cent, per annum. The note…