Cummings v. Strobridge Land Syndicate, Pac. Improvement Co.

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage alleged to have been given by the defendant Sayle to plaintiff on the fifteenth day of November, 1881, to secure the payment of a promissory note made by Sayle at the same date. The amount of the promissory note was two thousand dollars. A trial was had, resulting in judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $16,480.50, and for a decree of the sale of the mortgaged premises. The motion for a new trial was denied, and certain of the defendants appeal from the judgment and from the order denying their motion. The salient facts of the case are these: Sayle,…