Legal Opinion

Equitable Life Ins. v. Gleason

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 8, 1883PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from, Polls Circuit Court. Aotion to foreclose a mortgage. The plaintiff is content with the relief granted, but the defendant, Gleason, is not, and appeals. His co-defendant, "W. T. Laughlin, is the real party in interest adverse to Gleason.

1Opinion of the CourtServers, J.

The defendants, Gleason and his wife, executed a mortgage to the plaintiff on one hundred and sixty acres of land. This action was -brought to foreclose such mortgage. Sellards & Laughlin were made defendants, it being alleged that they had some claim on the land junior to the plaintiff’s mortgage. Gleason set up that he was entitled to a homestead in the mortgaged premises, and he asked that the land other than the homestead be first sold. That he is entitled to the relief asked must be conceded, unless the facts pleaded and established by Sellards & Laughlin bar such right. After the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Dilger v. PalmerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Nolan v. NolanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Kerens National Bank v. StocktonTexas Supreme Court · 1931
  3. In Re MartinSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1994
  4. Blood v. MunnCalifornia Supreme Court · 1909
  5. Boyce v. HawnSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1927

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