The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-06
a MoRreAaED CORPSE.
Peculiar Question of Recovery in CAL
ifornia Recorders Court.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
A corpse in the Mountain View Gene
terry has been mortgaged. The recording
of the document at once led to an inves-
tigation, and IL was found that II. N.
Richardson has a very queer way of
raising money The mortgage placed on
record states the deal In full, and no at
tempt Is made to hide anything Mr..
Richardson was hard up for some money.
and the best security he could give Mar
garet Teeter for n loan of $3.50 was lot
in the Mountain View Cemetery.
The woman was willing to advance the
money on the security, so she took the
mortgage on the cemetery lot The docu-
ment was placed on record, and then Mrs.
Teeter commenced to wonder If every
thing vas all right. Richardson had his
money, and he had given his note for
$3.50 due in two years, and bearing 8 per
cent. interest
The friends of Mrs Teeter injured at
the cemetery, in order to learn II she had
been duped. II was found that the lot
which had been mortgaged in the ceme-
terry originally, stood in the name of NJ.
p. Perine, but notice had been given that
a transfer had been made to Richardson.
It was also learned that a body was in
TERED in the lot, and In consequence, the
mortgage covers the corpse.
This information was rather startling
when IL was received at the office of the
county recorder, for the document itself
says nothing about a corpse. II is held.
however, that the corpse goes with the
lot and is part of the security for the
debt.
In case Mr. Richardson should default
in the payment of that mortgage Mrs.
Teeter' would not have an easy time coll
lecting her money. She could not fore
close on the corpse and put IT up at public
auction and sell it; the law would not al
low IT. In fact she Is absolutely barred
from commencing an action in court in
regard to the matter. When a body Is
Inferred in a lot In a cemetery that set
ties all court proceedings, for the mort
gage can never be collected. It is not
stated by counsel at the court house
whether Mrs. Teeter would have the right
TO rent any portion Of the lot to her
friends for burial purposes in case OF de-
fault I'm payment Of the mortgage
This Is the first document OF the kind
which has ever been recorded in Alameda
county, and, In consequence, II excited so
much interest among the officials that a
thorough investigation was made. Du-
ring the search the name Of the Individual
whose corpse was resting I'm the mort
gagged lot was not discovered. The par
ties Interested I'm the deal are not saying
much about the matter, and up to the
present time all is going well. Mr. Rich
ardson has his money, and he is satisfied
with his trade. Mrs. Teeter has secured
her mortgage on the corpse, and she sup
posed that everything was all right She
will have something to think about In the
future should there be a default In the
payment Of Interest or principal. But
Mrs. Teeter at present Is minding her
own business and is not worrying about
any corpse under mortgage. She is LETT
ting other people worry just now.
Are your sympathies with the Chinese
in this war; asked his wife
Just look at that shirt front" said Mr..
Simpkins, glOwingly, land ask me a fool
question like that again!-Chicago Rec