First Trust Joint Stock Land Bank of Chicago v. Baxter

This case involves two separate foreclosure actions of real estate mortgages, on separate tracts of land, brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, and comes to us on an appeal by the plaintiff from orders of continuance entered in said actions under the provisions of Senate File 15 (chapter 80) of the Acts of the Forty-seventh General Assembly. There is practically no dispute in the facts which are substantially as follows :

On May 2, 1924, R. B. Baxter and Rita Baxter, husband and wife, executed a mortgage for $38,000 on approximately 560 acres of land in Woodbury county, Iowa, to the…