Hoellworth v. McCarthy

Plaintiff brought this suit to foreclose a mortgage for $9,230.88 on 720 acres of land in Greeley county. By cross-hill Byers Brothers & Company, defendant, a corporation engaged in the live stock commission business in South Omaha, pleaded a subsequent mortgage on the same. property for $12,423.93, and prayed for a foreclosure thereof. In both transactions defendants Patrick II. McCarthy and Mary J. McCarthy, his wife, are mortgagors. From a decree foreclosing both mortgages defendant Mary J. McCarthy has appealed, and will be designated “appellant.” Other mortgages aggregating $8,915.80…