Jordan v. Brown

HALE, Justice.

Appellants, as heirs of Martha Brown, deceased, sued Homer T. Brown in the district court of McLennan County on certain purchase-money notes and for a foreclosure of their lien upon 144 acres of land. They joined appellee Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (herein called the insurance company) as a defendant, alleging that its claim to the land was inferi- or to theirs and that they were entitled to foreclosure against it. Homer Brown did not answer, but the insurance company appeared and fully plead its interest in -the land which it claimed was superior to the lien of…