Mulholland v. Landise

Plaintiffs filed a bill to foreclose a trust deed and made defendants thereto Thomas H. Landise (a judgment creditor of the grantors named in the trust deed who had perfected the lien of his judgment against the premises) and unknown owners. Landise answered, admitting the material averments of the bill as to the execution of the notes, trust deed, etc., but setting up by way of defense that Thomas Mulholland, deceased, plaintiffs’ predecessor in title, had filed a prior bill to foreclose the same trust deed and in that proceeding obtained jurisdiction of the parties; that a decree of…