McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Scovell

In January, 1885, as averred in the complaint, appellee Marion E. Scovell executed notes to appel*552lant, and at the same time he and his wife, Adella M., to secure the payment of those notes, executed a mortgage to appellant upon real estate.

Appellant brought this action to recover judgment upon the notes and to foreclose the mortgage.

A joint answer was filed by appellees, and also a separate answer by the wife, Adella M. As those answers rest upon substantially the same facts, a brief extract of the separate answer by Adella M. will suffice. In that answer it is averred, in substance, that…