Hitchcock v. Nixon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

One F. H. Wilkin borrowed $5,000 of the Merchants National Bank of Tacoma, and Thomas L. Nixon became his surety on the note given for the same. To indemnify Nixon, Wilkin executed to him a mortgage, on the land involved in this case, for the sum of $5,000, on the 21st day of January, 1887. On December 10, 1887, Wilkin executed a mortgage on the same land, together with some other land, to one S. R. Geddis, to secure a note for $1,471. On December 17th of the same year, Wilkin deeded the land to Nixon. On December 28, 1888, Wilkin having…