Blaine County National Bank v. Timmerman

Tena Timmerman Knifong and Sidney Thomas Knifong were husband and wife. Disagreements affecting their marital relations and property rights had arisen. The husband had given to the Blaine County National Bank and the Belleview State Bank, respectively, two mortgages on a piece of real properly which the wife claimed to be her sole and separate property, contending that the husband had no authority to mortgage the same and that she had not acquiesced therein. The husband had filed claims against the estates of his wife’s deceased mother and brother; the wife in turn had caused to be filed a…