Smith v. Thompson

IRWIN, Justice.

These three cases, which were consolidated for trial and appeal by agreement of the parties, involve the priority of liens on three tracts of land. C. R. Smith, plaintiff in error, had mortgage liens on the three properties involved and he commenced the three proceedings to foreclose his mortgage liens against defendants in error, Guy Thompson and M. Jo Thompson, the mortgagors, and to establish priority of his mortgage liens over the mechanics’ and ma-terialmen’s liens of the other defendants in error.

The record discloses that the mortgage liens were dated and recorded before…