Drury v. Hickinbotham

This is an action to foreclose a tax certificate on a quarter-section of land in Saline county. The appellant Alexander McFarlane filed a cross-petition for the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by the appellants Francis Leland Hickenbotham and Jesse Hickinbotham, who in- turn filed a joint answer and cross-petition praying for the construction of the last will and testament of Samuel F. Hickinbotham, deceased, in order that the rights of the mortgagee in the land might be determined. A decree foreclosing the tax lien was entered on January 16, 1934. On May 23, 1934, the trial court entered…