Patricio v. Scott

Loretta Patricio owned a small tract of land in Snohomish county, about two miles north of the King county line. Defendants purchased, in June, 1935, from Charles McCarthy, a farm located near Sultan, in Snohomish county. That property was subject to a mortgage of which the Federal Land Bank of Spokane was the mortgagee.

In the spring of 1935, plaintiffs were negotiating with McCarthy for an exchange of properties. Those negotiations were fruitless. The latter part of July, 1935, which was shortly subsequent to the acquisition by the defendants of the McCarthy property, the defendants and…