Weisberger v. Wisner

This is a suit in equity for the foreclosure of a mortgage given by Franklin Muzzy to Frederick A. ."White in June, 1873, to secure notes to the amount of eleven Iran dred dollars. The land mortgaged was the undivided half of the east half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-three, in township three south, of range eighteen west. Muzzy was dead before the suit was instituted, and the only question in the case was whether the mortgage, under the circumstances disclosed in the evidence, was a lien on the land described in it, and, if so, to what extent.

Muzzy, it appears, was, in May,…