Breckinridge v. Brown

The petitioner held a promissory note for $700, signed by the defendant, Brown, alone, payable at the banking house of Greene, Weare & Graves, in Marion, Linn county, Iowa; and she also held a mortgage executed by Brown and his wife, upon lands in Jones county, to secure the payment of the note. She filed a petition in the District Court of Linn county, in two counts, praying in one of them a judgment on the note, and in the other a foreclosure of the mortgage, and a sale of the land. .

The action was commenced on the 13th day of March, 1858, and on the 6th day of April following, at the April…