Fernschild v. D. G. Yuengling Brewing Co.

The action was brought to ■ recover the amount of two bonds and interest, executed by thé D. G. Yuengling, Jr., Brewing Company, the predecessor of the defendant, and which plaintiff claimed this defendant had assumed and agreed to pay. The defendant denied that it assumed them.. The bonds sued upon are two of an issue of $1,258,000 of bonds, all of which had been secured by a so-called deed of trust or mortgage, pledging the plant and alb of the real property of the brewing company as security for .their payment.

Besides this trust deed or mortgage there were prior mortgages aggregating…