Wannall v. Kem

*151This was an action in the nature of a bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage executed by the defendants Kern and wife, on land belonging to the wife in fee, to secure a note alleged to have been executed by Kem and wife to the plaintiff’s indorser. The mortgage is dated the 18th of January, 1869, and was acknowledged before the defendant A. L. Loucks as notary public. The acknowledgment was properly made, but the notary public failed to state in his certificate of acknowledgment the facts necessary to constitute a good acknowledgment by husband and wife to a conveyance of the wife’s lands.…