Liska v. Beckmann

On May 27, 1920, Andrew Moe and wife executed and delivered to Osner & Mehlhorn, Inc., their promissory note for twenty-five hundred dollars, secured by a mortgage maturing three years later on certain real estate owned by them in King county. That mortgage was placed of record in the office of the King county auditor May 28,1920, and on the same date assigned by Osner & Mehlhorn to C. L. Beckmann. (The assignment was not recorded until September 4, 1930.)

Thereafter, the Moes conveyed the property, subject, to the mortgage, to Ole Bjornstad and wife. By operation of law, the Moe mortgage…