In the Circuit Court of the 5th Judicial Circuit
of Florida, for Alachua County In Chancery
The Standard Sewing Machine Company a }
Corporation under the laws of the State of Ohio }
Complainant } Foreclosure of Mortgage
vs }
W.P. Coker and wife Elizabeth E. Coker }
Defendants } Final Decree
And now on this day comes the complainant in the above
styled cause, by L.N. Green its solicitor of record, and it appears to
the court that process was duly served on the defendants on the 25th
day of January 1898 and that thereafter, by Evans Haile, their solicitor,
they appeared and defended said action by demurring to the bill
of complaint, and by other and further pleading as shown by the record;
and it further appearing to the court that a decree pro confesso was
regularly and properly entered against said defendants on the Rule
Day in May 1898, for failure to file other and further pleadings
in said cause on or before that day as provided by the order of the
court made on the 22nd day of April 1898 overruling the pleas of
said defendant. Now, this cause coming on for a final hearing upon
the bill of complaint and proof offered before the court by complainant
and the court being fully advised in the premises doth find
That the Court has jurisdiction of the subject matter and the
parties in this cause; that the allegations in said bill contained are
true as therein stated and that the equity of this cause is with the
complainant; and that there is now due from the defendant W.P
Coker to the Complainant for principal and interest on said note
and mortgage the sum of Two Thousand Dollars. It is therefore ordered
adjudged and Decreed by the Court that the said defendant
W.P. Coker or his wife if she so see fit and proper, pay to the
complainant, or its attorney of record, within three days from this
date the said sum of Two Thousand Dollars with legal interest
to be computed thereon from this day until paid, and also the
sum of One Hundred & fifty dollars as a reasonable fee for complainants
solicitor as shown to be proper under the proofs introduced
before the court for foreclosing said mortgage and also the costs
of this suit. And it is further ordered adjudged and decreed that
in default of said payments being made as aforesaid, by the
defendants then in that case the said mortgaged premises mentioned
in the bill of complaint in this cause viz: The south half of the
following described lot Commencing at the South West corner of the
Henry Avery lot, in Roper's Addition to the Town of Gainesville
Alachua County, Florida, a plat of which addition is recorded in
Deed Book "J" page 550 the same being in section four (4) Township
ten (10) Range twenty (20) south and east this tract being the southern
part of a strip in the south west corner of lot eleven (11) and three
fourths (3/4) as desigated on said map of Roper's addition running
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