Biersdorff v. Brumfield

McQUADE, Justice.

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage-on real property. The issues presented by this appeal pertain to the competing rights-of a mortgagee and an attaching creditor of real property.

In the spring of 1965, Ray Brumfield, a gypo logger, sought to have his equipment overhauled in preparation for the summer-season. This work was to be performed by respondent, George Biersdorff, doing business as Valléy View Truck & Welding at *571St. Maries, Idaho. Brumfield than owed .Biersdorff either $7,000 or $11,000 (depending on whether a partnership debt of Brumfield, the “A & B account,”…