McCord v. Wright

The appellee’s decedent, Benjamin R. McCord, was seized in fee simple, at the time of his death, of divers parcels of real estate in Marion county, which are described in appellant’s complaint, and may be described in this opinion as numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Each of these parcels was encumbered by mortgages executed by the decedent, in his lifetime, and by the appellant, then his wife and now his widow, as security for his debts, amounting, in the aggregate, to a sum largely in excess of the actual cash value of each and all of such parcels of real estate. After the death of Benjamin R. McCord…