Wilson v. Stevens

One portion of a tract of land is owned by defendant Edna Stevens, to whom it was conveyed by deed in 1909. The other portion is owned by defendant Robert Stevens, to whom it was conveyed by deed in 1923. The entire tract is encumbered by a mortgage for $1,000 covering an undivided one-ninth interest therein — which mortgage was made by Charles M. Meeker to James Y. Wilson in 1908 and duly recorded. The mortgage debt matured in three years from the date.

In 1918 Meeker, the mortgagor, died. In 1925 Wilson, the mortgagee, died, and his administrator subsequently filed this bill to foreclose —…