Hibernia Savings & Loan Society v. Ordway

This is an action to foreclose two mortgages and to remove an alleged cloud upon the title to the mortgaged premises, which cloud is alleged to have been created by the joint fraudulent and collusive action of the mortgagors and their co-defendant, Anderson, for the purpose of defrauding the plaintiff of its lien. The cloud consists of a judgment in an action of ejectment, founded upon a tax deed, by Anderson, against the mortgagors, by which he recovered of them the possession of the mortgaged premises. The action of ejectment was brought after the execution of the mortgages, but was founded…