Simon v. Union Trust Co.

This case presents but one question: In a suit to procure a personal judgment upon a promissory note, and also to foreclose a mortgage which secures such note, may the court enter personal judgment for the entire amount found to be due prior to the foreclosure of the mortgage and sale of the premises, or must rendition of judgment be deferred until the result of the sale is ascertained and the deficiency determined, and judgment then rendered only for the amount of such deficiency?

We had supposed this proposition had become so well settled as to be beyond controversy. The practice of…