Exchange Bank & Trust Co. v. Bartley

Opinion by

Me. Justice Hughes,

The appellants petitioned to open a judgment confessed on a mortgage bond. The mortgaged premises were owned by Ruth Hoefner Bartley, subject to the curtesy interest of her father, J. Henry Hoefner, in one-half thereof. Ruth Hoefner Bartley acquired one-half of the property by descent from her mother, subject to her father’s curtesy interest, and the other half was devised to her by her uncle, Milo L. McMurray. McMurray died on September 11, 1921, but prior to his death, on March 12,1920, the Franklin Trust Company confessed judgment on a note of $10,000.00 and…