Ensor v. Keech

On the fourteenth day of December, 1880, John Morrow, Jr., executed a mortgage to Henry H. Gore to secure the sum of five hundred dollars, and the annual interest thereon for three years, at the expiration of which the whole would be payable. The mortgage contained a power of sale, upon default, by which either the mortgagee or William S. Keech was authorized to sell the property, (upon notice which was prescribed in the deed,) and to apply the proceeds, after paying costs and commissions, to the payment of the mortgage debt and accrued interest, and the surplus to pay to the mortgagor.

On the…