Lorimer v. Fairchild

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bukch, J.:

The facts of this controversy were found by the trial court to be as follows :

“1. That on the 23d day of July, 1886, the defendant William Stout executed a six-hundred- ($600) dollar note payable to William F. Leonard, a copy of which is attached to plaintiff’s petition, marked ‘ Exhibit A.’

“2. And that at the same time and for the purpose of securing said note said Stout executed a mortgage upon the southwest quarter of section twenty (20), in township twenty-six (26) south, of range nine (9) west, in Reno county, Kansas, a copy of which…