McMurtry v. Keifner

This was an action brought by the appellant for the partition of real estate. Plaintiff, in his petition filed in the district court, alleges that he is the owner of an undivided one-half interest in the lands in dispute, and that the defendant William Keifner is the owner of the other undivided one-half interest thereof; that the defendant J. R. Richards, as trustee for the defendant State Loan & Trust ‘Company, has á mortgage heretofore executed by the defendant Keifner upon his interest in the premises, to secure the payment of $800, due July 1, 1893.

The defendant Keifner alone answered:…