Murff v. Ratcliff

The defendant has appealed from a judgment, rendered in a hypothecary action, ordering him to pay the plaintiff $231.50, with interest and costs, or suffer a certain house and lot, belonging to him, to be seized and sold to satisfy a judgment held by the plaintiff against Ben Jamison, whose homestead the property once was. The defendant, Rat-cliff, held a mortgage on the property, recorded before the plaintiff’s judgment was recorded, and a waiver of Jamison’s homestead exemption; but Ratcliff neglected to have his mortgage reinscribed within ten years from the date of its registry,’and the…