Windt v. Covert

On April 27, 1893, the defendant executed and delivered to plaintiff her promissory note in the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars, payable six months after date. At the same time, and as security for the payment of said note, said defendant, Mary I. Covert, purchased from one Brown a parcel of land in the county of Alameda and caused Brown to execute a conveyance thereof to the plaintiff. This action was commenced on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1897, and by his complaint the plaintiff, treating the conveyance of the land to himself as a mortgage, sought a decree of foreclosure.

At the…