Dirago v. Taylor

FOSTER, Justice.

The complaint shows that Victoria Taylor owned two houses, the “home place” and the “little house,” and a lot of personal property; that she executed a mortgage on it all to complainant, without her husband joining in the mortgage; something like a year and a half later she died, and left surviving her husband, Henry Taylor, and a son by another marriage, Ozzie Cobb, as her only heirs and distributees. A few days later the surviving husband executed a mortgage to complainant on all the property to secure the same debt and $600 covering a different liability to him by Henry.…