Crawford v. Foreman

'Defendant Charles L. Foreman and his wife executed two mortgages upon an 80-acre tract of land owned by them, one to the Iowa Loan & Trust Company, which was first in point of time, and another to one Thomas, from whom they had purchased the property, which was the junior mortgage'. Plaintiff purchased these two mortgages, and brought separate actions to foreclose the same. These suits went .to decree, and special executions were ordered for the sale of the mortgaged property. The west forty acres of the tract was the homestead of the defendants Foreman, and was selected and platted by them…