Warrick v. Hull

On the 3d day of March, 1876, Silas E. Warrick was the owner in fee of an eighty-acre tract of land, upon which he then resided with his family, consisting of a wife and children, as their homestead, and where he still resides with them. Being indebted to John W. Hull for borrowed money, Silas E. Warrick, on the 3d day of March, 1876, executed and delivered to Hull his promissory note for the sum of $1500, payable two years after date, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, payable annually, and undertook to secure the same by mortgage on the land on ■which he resided as his…