Gleissner v. Hughes

Plaintiffs became the owners, by the last will and testament of Mrs. P. B. Barlow, deceased, of two mortgage notes, dated May 25 and June 18, 1920, respectively, each for the sum of $10,000, the first being secured by special mortgage upon lots 285 and 286, and the second secured similarly by lots 228 and 229, all situated in the Pinehurst subdivision of the city of Shreveport, La. Neither note was paid by the maker, P. B. Jones; they were duly foreclosed upon, and the property was bid in by plaintiffs at sheriff's sale who sought to have the amounts of their bids credited upon the notes. The…