Richards v. Davis

Opinion by

Judge Holt :

The appellant, Jeremiah Richards, on February 21, 1873, executed to C. B. Davis a note for $2,088.01, payable twenty-four months thereafter and bearing interest at ten per cent, per annum from date. At the same time the obligor together with his wife executed to the obligee in order to secure the payment of said note a mortgage on five tracts of land, one of which was Prior’s island in the Ohio river. Davis, soon after the execution of the note, assigned it to his mother, the appellee, Emily Davis.

On May 21, 1874, C. B. Davis took another note from said Richards for…