King v. De Tar

The petition alleges that Anderson D. King is the owner in fee simple of an 80-acre tract of land, namely, the south half of the northwest quarter of section 31, township 26, range 49, west sixth P. M., in Box Butte county, Nebraska, and that defendants David F. DeTar and Ethel DeTar, his wife, pretending to be owners, executed and delivered to Joshua Palmer a mortgage for $1,200, dated March 26, 1913, recorded March 28, 1913; that Palmer and wife executed and delivered to Walter C. Smith, intervening defendant, a mortgage for $833 on the land in suit, dated March 31, 1917, and recorded May…