Grissom v. Bull

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage.

On October 31, 1914, Mrs. Bertha Hansen, an elderly widow, deeded to her son Gilbert Olaf Hansen, and his then wife, Flora, the Hansen home place, in Kittitas county, containing fifty-five acres. There were two dwelling houses on the place, and she reserved a life interest in the small tract upon which her own house was situated. On the same day, the son and his wife gave her their note for six thousand dollars, payable in ten years, with interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, and secured the note by giving her a mortgage upon the property…