Lower v. Shorthill

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

R. A. Lower brought this action against H. H. Shorthill and wife an'd B. L. Light, to recover on twelve promissory notes of $50 each, and one for $500.

Light filed an amended cross petition in the action, alleging that when the Shorthills executed the notes to him in October, 1913, to secure them they executed to him a chattel mortgage in the. sum of $1,100 on certain blacksmith machinery find tools; that they also executed another note for $400, together with a second mortgage on the same property; “that thereafter and within a very few…