Court Opinion

ID: 6236011
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-17 20:32:41.201425+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:57:56.062849
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The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered, February 17th 1879,
Per Curiam.
That the mortgage containing a recital of indebtedness to the intestate would have been evidence in the suit is not to be doubted; but could an action be maintained on the instrument? This is necessary to entitle the party to a judgment for want of an affidavit of defence. In Scott v. Fields, 7 Watts 360, the action was upon a mortgage containing an unequivocal acknowledgment of a bond for the debt. In was held in that case, that without an express covenant to pay, no action could be maintained on the mortgage.
Judgment affirmed.