Simmons v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

In April, 1914, the respondent, Gordon L. Simmons, began this action in the superior court of Chehalis county to foreclose a mortgage upon certain real property situated therein, executed to him by Jehiel Church and Lucy A. Church, his wife. He made parties defendant to the action, in addition to the mortgagors, one S. A. Richardson and his wife, Nannie L. Richardson, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company. The railway company alone appeared and defended the action. It set up, first, a right of way one hundred feet in width across the premises between cer*386tain termini, and second, a right to…