Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. v. Sutton

May 28, 1931, defendant Ella B. Sutton, being in default in the payment of the entire principal and some interest and taxes due on an ordinary real estate mortgage for $20,000 to plaintiff, executed an instrument reading:

“The undersigned, Ella B. Sutton, owner of the premises located 8724-28 Grand River avenue, in the city of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, and which is now subject to a first mortgage to the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, dated March 22, 1926, and recorded on page 259 in book 1697, and given to secure the payment of $20,000 and the payments of which mortgage…