Rafter Farm Mortgage Co. v. King

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This appeal presents the question whether the defendants were entitled to six months or eighteen months in which to redeem certain lands sold in mortgage foreclosure proceedings.

It appears that the late John N. King, of Jackson county, who died a few years ago, left an estate of three tracts of land, aggregating 330 acres, heavily encumbered to three separate mortgagees. His heirs were his widow and eight sons and daughters, of whom one was a minor. One of the sons was the defendant Jay R. King.

For their own purposes the widow and all the…