Des Moines Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Eisenmenger

In this action to foreclose a first mortgage, plaintiffs got a decree by default March 13, 1929. A sale of the premises, a Martin county farm, was had and confirmed by order April 27, 1929. Later a motion was made by Farmers State Bank of Sherburn, Inc. one of the defendants, which held a mortgage junior to that of plaintiffs, for an order vacating the decree and permitting it to appear and defend the action on the merits. The only purpose was to enable the mover to assert and protect a lien for taxes on the mortgaged premises, which it had purchased at a delinquent tax sale before this…