Koppler v. Bugge

The consideration of this case has been delayed somewhat out of its proper order on account of the magnitude of the record and briefs and its importance to the parties.

This action was brought by respondent Koppler and eleven others to reestablish, as a valid and subsisting lien, a certain mortgage given by appellants Bugge to Osner & Mehlhorn, Inc., as mortgagee, alleged to have been wrongfully satisfied by August Mehlhorn, Jr., an officer of the mortgagee corporation, and to have the mortgage established as a lien prior to a later mortgage executed in favor of Calvin Philips & Company, a…