Welsh v. Case

To pay for professional services rendered in a bankruptcy matter, defendants gave promissory notes secured by a mortgage to plaintiffs, who were their attorneys and a consultant. When defendants defaulted, plaintiffs brought this foreclosure action. Defendants assign error to the trial court’s denial of their request for a jury trial and to the court’s rejection of their defenses challenging the enforceability of the mortgage. We affirm.

On de novo review, we find the following facts.' Defendants 1 own farm property in Union County. In the fall of 1989, after four years of losing money, they…