Willis v. Willis

This suit is instituted upon two promissory notes, secured by mortgage on a tract of land sold by the plaintiff to the ■defendant. The plaintiff claims recognition and enforcement of the mortgage, and vendor’s privilege upon the land, and that the proceeds be specially applied to the payment of the notes and all interest upon them. Each of these notes is tor $1774 97, payable respectively on the first of January, 1861 and 1862, with eight per cent, interest from date.

The defendant does not deny her liability to pay the notes as a personal debt, but contends that the special mortgage granted…