Huiskamp v. Breen

October 3, 1931, the plaintiff, appellee herein, commenced this action in the district court of Dickinson county, Iowa, to foreclose a $9,250 mortgage which had been given October 1, 1929, on ten lots in a plat of Okoboji City, Dickinson county, Iowa, by E. J. Breen and Mary E. Breen. At the time of the commencement of the action the note given on the mortgage had been reduced to $3,625, with interest from October 1, 1929, at 6 per cent per annum. E. J. Breen had conveyed a part of the lots to his wife, Mary E. Breen, prior to the bringing of the suit. Breen and his wife had given a mortgage…