Supreme Court of Connecticut June 15, 1848 (Abbe v. Newton)

Hinman, J.

The plaintiffs, Araha Newton and wife, seek to foreclose a mortgage, executed to the wife, previous to her marriage, by Timothy H. Abbe and his wife Elizabeth. The mortgagee was then a single woman, the widow of Reuel *26Ensign, and the mother of said Elizabeth, who was her only child.