Case Name: HUMES vs. THE HEIRS OF SHELLY
Court: Tennessee Superior Court of Law and Equity
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1804-09
Citations: 1 Overt. 79
Docket Number: 
Parties: HUMES vs. THE HEIRS OF SHELLY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 79–79

Head Matter:
HUMES vs. THE HEIRS OF SHELLY.
Practice in Equity on Bills to foreclose.

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.