Hentig v. Johnson

Plaintiff was the owner of an undivided one-half of a certain lot, the legal title to which stood in the name of Mary Williams, subject to a mortgage held by Prances E. Johnson. Williams refused to transfer to plaintiff his interest in said lot, whereupon he brought suit to compel conveyance thereof. Judgment was rendered in his favor, from which Williams appealed. Pending this appeal, Johnson brought suit to foreclose her mortgage, making plaintiff a party defendant therein. She obtained a decree of foreclosure, under which the lot was, on August 2, 1904, sold for a sum in excess of that…