Tansil v. McCumber

We proceed to discuss the evidence with reference to the findings of the court below that the transactions between the plaintiff and the defendant McCumber involving the Missouri land amounted in equity to a mortgage, and were unconscionable, usurious, and fraudulent, and that the mortgage on the Iowa land now sought to be foreclosed was to be canceled, as a result of plaintiff’s taking, back the Missouri land.

In 1919, during the boom, Harve McCumber bought, on account of his father, the defendant George E. McCumber, a 285-acre farm in Missouri, at $95 per acre, on which George paid $12,075…