Debord v. Pendleton

This action was instituted by plaintiff to cancel and set aside a mortgage and to relieve certain farm lands from the lien and encumbrance of said mortgage.

Bert H. DeBord, the present owner of the lands in question, consisting of one hundred and fifty acres in Morgan County, Mo., is a resident of said coxinty. Defendants W. G. and G. T. Pendleton are residents of Cooper County; defendants George Wells, James E. Adams and J. Russell Wells, at the time this controversy arose, were doing a loan and brokerage business at Quincy, 111., under the firm name of Wells & Adams. On September 20, 1912,…