McEwen and McEwen v. Schenck

In a suit against husband and wife to foreclose a mortgage upon the husband’s homestead real estate, the defendants by plea “aver that the Defendant, Virginia MeEwen, did not acknowledge before any officer authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments that she executed the said mortgage; and they aver that the Defendant, Virginia McEwen, did not appear before any officer so authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments for the purpose of acknowledging the execution thereof; and these Defendants say that the certificate of acknowledgment appearing upon the said mortgage is…