Employers Indemnity Corp. v. Garrett

— Under the petition, this in form is a suit to foreclose a mortgage: in substance an action of.assumpsit brought by a mortgagee against the mortgagor’s grantee, based on a clause in the deed of conveyance whereby the latter purported to assume and agree to pay the mortgage debt. Through subsequent pleadings it developed into a suit in equity to reform the deed. The pertinent facts will be stated.

On the.first day of March, 1921, George Kaltenbach and Emma Kaltenbaeh, his wife, were the owners of a farm of 1,000 acres in Webster County, Missouri. The land was encumbered with two deeds of trust…