Watson v. Dundee Mortgage & Trust Investment Co.

This is a suit in equity to forelose a mortgage executed by Eugene MeCallister to the plaintiff, upon a certain tract of 220 acres of land in Marion County. The question to be decided involves the priority of liens, first, as between the appellant and the plaintiff; and second, as between the appellant and his co-defendants.

A summary of the facts out of which the controversy arises is, that the two first mortgages on this land were given by H. MeCallister and wife to Eliza ■ Dickson, one in October, 1874, and the other in November, 1878, to secure two certain promissory notes, and that…