Humes v. Heirs of Shelly , 1 Tenn. 79 ( 1804 )

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.