Sharts v. Awalt

— On November 4th, 1875, William G. Parker executed to Uriah D. Sharts his five several promissory notes, not governed by the law merchant, each for the sum of two hundred dollars, payable respectively in one, two, three, four and five years. At the same time he executed a mortgage on an eighty-acre tract of land, in Ripley county, to secure the payment of the notes.

This action was brought by John H. Sharts, as the assignee of the notes, to foreclose the mortgage, and William Lewis and his wife, John Await and Oliver Wells, administrator of the estate of William G. Parker, were made…