Rogers v. Rogers

The appellee Edward H. Rogers made a note to the appellant, Stephen H. Rogers, for seven thousand dollars, and the other appellee, Mary J. Rogers, wife of Edward H. Rogers, joined in a mortgage on certain lands, to secure the payment of the note, she in her own separate right owning part of the lands, and she and her husband jointly owning the other lands mortgaged.

The first and principal question is, was the note and mortgage given to secure and be assigned as collateral for a debt owing by the appellant and Edward H. Rogers, one of the appellees, to a third person? This question was, on two…