Judkins-Davies v. Skochdopole

This is a controversy as to the priority of certain mortgage liens on a quarter section of land in Sherman county. In a foreclosure proceeding the district court decreed Arthur C. Mayer’s $3,500 mortgage to be a first lien on the south half of the quarter section and his $2,500 mortgage to be a first lien on the north half of the quarter section. This was in accord with the stipulation of all parties on the trial. The decree also adjudicated the $5,000 mortgage of F. J. Coates to be a second lien on the whole of the quarter section and the $2,400 mortgage of the plaintiff to be a third lien…