West v. Capital Trust & Savings Bank

This is an appeal by defendants from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action to quiet title to certain lands located in Toole county. The lands were patented to Joseph A. Stenson, and on April 7, 1920, Stenson and wife gave a mortgage on the land to the Capital Trust and Savings Bank of St. Paul, Minnesota, to secure a note in the sum of $1,000. In 1922 the Stensons conveyed the land to W. C. Pratt, and in 1923 Pratt conveyed the land to the Montana Giant Petroleum Company, which was the record owner when the Capital Trust and Savings Bank, hereafter referred to as Capital Trust,…