Daniels v. Eisenlord
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne Circuit in Chancery. Complainant, as administratrix of Mary Eisenlord, filed her bill to foreclose a mortgage given to said Mary by her son, Spencer Eisenlord, June 28, 1845, conditioned that the said Spencer Eisenlord should support and maintain said Mary, from the date of said mortgage, during her natural life, and furnish her with all proper and necessary board, meat, food, drinks and lodgings, together with all proper nursing, medicine, and medical…
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Appeal from Wayne Circuit in Chancery. Complainant, as administratrix of Mary Eisenlord, filed her bill to foreclose a mortgage given to said Mary by her son, Spencer Eisenlord, June 28, 1845, conditioned that the said Spencer Eisenlord should support and maintain said Mary, from the date of said mortgage, during her natural life, and furnish her with all proper and necessary board, meat, food, drinks and lodgings, together with all proper nursing, medicine, and medical attendance in sickness, and to provide and furnish her with all necessary and decent clothing and wearing apparel, and to…
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
The mortgagor agreed -to support, maintain and provide for his mother, the mortgagee, during the term of her natural life, and was to furnish her with proper and necessary board, wearing apparel, meat, food, and medical *457attendance, and pay all funeral charges at her death. There is no evidence the mortgagor in his life time, or his heirs after his death, refused to do all that the condition of the mortgage called for; or of any demand made on them, or either of them, by the mortgagee, or any one on her behalf, for her support. The evidence shows she lived with the mortgagor about…
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