Koht v. Dean

On August 5, 1933, Emma M. Koht commenced this action in equity asking for judgment for a balance of $7,720 upon a note for $12,050, with interest at 6 per cent per annum, executed by George W. Dean and Maggie Dean, and secured by a first mortgage on land belonging to them in Wapello county, Iowa. Loreda McQuade, administratrix of the estate of Mary C. Hayden, deceased, was also made a party defendant, the petition alleging that a note for $2,250 secured by mortgage on the same land, given by the defendants George W. Dean and Maggie Dean to J. F. Hayden, was by him assigned to Mary C. Hayden,…