New York Court of Appeals October 7, 1902 (Reichert v. . Stilwell)

Vann, J.

The defendants’ intestate, Charles A. Stilwell, gave two mortgages upon his farm in the town of DeWitt, county of Onondaga, one in 1881 for $2,000 and the other in 1886 for $1,000, to' secure the payment of money borrowed at the dates and to the amounts stated. A bond in the usual form accompanied each mortgage and represented the debt secured.