Sidle v. Cheney

This action was brought to foreclose a real estate mortgage. The trial involved a determination of priority between the mortgage of plaintiff, a mortgage held by certain of the defendants as trustees, and the separate mechanics’ liens of other defendants. The property was a dwelling in the city of Alexandria financed by residents of the community for a doctor as an inducement to get him to settle in the city. The trial court determined that the dwelling was the doctor’s homestead; that plaintiff’s mortgage and the mortgage of the trustee defendants, totaling more than five thousand dollars,…