Silva

—The action was to foreclose two mortgages executed to the plaintiff by the defendant Joaquin S. Serpa to secure payment of his promissory notes, the first mortgage, dated June 2, 1885, to secure fifteen hundred dollars, with interest, and the second, dated September 14, 1885, to secure six hundred dollars. The respondent Maria L. Serpa was made defendant on the alleged ground that she had, or claimed to have, some interest in or lien upon the mortgaged property subject to the mortgage. The mortgagor, Joaquin S. Serpa, in person, without an attorney, demurred generally to the complaint, and his demurrer being overruled, failed to answer, and his default was duly entered. The defendant Maria answered to the effect that, after the execution of the mortgages, in July, 1886, she married the defendant Joaquin; that in January, 1887, by a decree of the superior court in which this action was brought, she obtained a divorce from said Joaquin on the ground of extreme cruelty, and also a judgment against him for $290, and for forty dollars per month as permanent alimony, which judgment was duly docketed immediately after it was entered, and that said judgment remains in full force, and is…