Yarnell v. Brown

On September 1,1876, James S. Woolley owned and resided upon a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres in Christian county, and on that day executed, with his wife, a mortgage to the appellee, Lephia 0. Brown, to secure the payment of §1000 borrowed money five years after date, with interest to be paid annually, intending to mortgage a forty-acre tract of the farm which was situate in range 1, east of the third principal meridian, but by mistake the land was described as being in range 1, west. Woolley had also given an unsecured note for §600 to one Spaulding, who in 1889 gave that note…