Putnam v. Lyon
Colorado Court of Appeals
Appeal from the District Court of Boulder County. Eap.lt in 1882 Adaline A. Lyon was the owner in fee of the southeast quarter of section 18 in township 3 in Boulder county. On the 29th day of April, 1880, while she held title she executed a trust deed running to one Laws as trustee to secure the payment of a promissory note due five years from that date. While this note was outstanding it was determined to kty out the land as a town site.
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Appeal from the District Court of Boulder County. Eap.lt in 1882 Adaline A. Lyon was the owner in fee of the southeast quarter of section 18 in township 3 in Boulder county. On the 29th day of April, 1880, while she held title she executed a trust deed running to one Laws as trustee to secure the payment of a promissory note due five years from that date. While this note was outstanding it was determined to kty out the land as a town site. To more successfully accomplish this purpose Mrs. Lyon deeded the premises to The Evans Towusite & Quarry Company, subject to the trust deed before…
1Opinion of the CourtBissell, J.
While all of the proceedings in the district court'were not strictly in harmony with the practice which should prevail in this class of cases, the court commited no substantial error *148of which the appellants can complain. Their first'attack is on the order of the court which consolidated the two actions for the purposes of trial. Section 20 of the Code, which they cite in support of their contention, undoubtedly provides that, where two actions are pending on two different causes of action between the same parties which might properly under the code have been joined, the court may order them…
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