Humes v. Heirs of Shelly
This text of 1 Tenn. 79 (Humes v. Heirs of Shelly) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Tennessee Superior Court for Law and Equity primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage by the ancestor to secure the payment of five hundred dollars with interest.
Decree, that the mortgaged land be sold, giving the usual notice of forty days, agreeable to the method of advertising land under execution. That the costs be first paid, next the principal and interest to the time of sale, and the balance if any, paid to the infants. But if the land should not be sufficient to satisfy the debt, the infants not to be personally liable.
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