Doom v. Holmes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wells, J. :

On March 15, 1888, Everton Doom made an application for a loan of $300 through the *521Oberlin Loan, Trust and Banking Company, said loan to be secured by mortgage upon ninety-one acres of land in section 30, township 3, range 26, in Decatur county. The application, which was in writing, contained a plat or diagram purporting to show location of roads, streams, buildings, cultivated lands, orchards, meadows, pastures, timber, etc. On the same day the loan was made, a note with interest coupons attached was executed, and attempted to be secured…