Appleton State Bank v. Nussbaum

The defendants John P. Nussbaum and wife owned and occupied a certain forty acres of land in Outa-gamie county as their homestead. The plaintiff bank was the owner of a second mortgage executed by the Nussbaums upon this property under date of June 23/1924. On October-23, 1931, the bank released this mortgage and took a *664new mortgage on the same premises for $3,210, for the foreclosure of which this action was commenced.

During the years 1929 and 1930 the members of the Nussbaum family at home were Mr. and Mrs. Nussbaum, their sons Leonard and Raymond, and a daughter, Delia. Leonard worked part…