Holmes v. Holmes

Complainants’ grandfather died intestate, owning .personal property valued at upwards of $168,000, and real estate valued at $25,000, leaving a widow, Mary Holmes, 77 years old, and four children. Upon a settlement of the estate, Mary Holmes transferred to the children all her interest, both real and personal, in the estate of her husband, and took in return four mortgages, one from each of the children, each “to secure the payment of the sum of five thousand dollars, * * * the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged, in manner following, to wit: Interest annually at seven per…