Depositors Holding Co. v. Brown

The Depositors Holding Company, a corporation, brings this action to quiet title and to determine adverse claims to a quarter section of land in Burleigh county, North Dakota, described as the southeast quarter of section 34, township 142, range 78.

The evidence discloses that for more than twenty years past the defendants W. H. Brown and Sarah L. Brown, as husband and wife, occupied the land described above as their homestead, and that commencing with the year 1916 and for a number of years thereafter the defendants borrowed considerable sums of money from the City National Bank of Bismarck,…