Laidley v. Aikin
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Madison District Qourt. — Hon. J. H. Henderson, Judge. This is an action in equity for tbe foreclosure of two mortgages upon certain real estate. The defendant McCall is the owner of a judgment which he claims is a lien on the land superior to the mortgages. The district court determined that the mortgages were the prior lien, and the defenant McCall appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, C. J.
— The record shows that on the twenty-second day of June, 1881, the defendant Mary E. Aikin made a contract with T. C. Gilpin for the purchase of eighty acres of land. She paid Gilpin two hundred dollars in cash, and for the balance of the purchase money she gave him her four promissory notes payable at different dates. The last note became due July 1, 1884. The whole consideration agreed to be paid for the land was $1,168.50. Gilpin executed to *113said Mary E. Aikin a title-bond, by which he agreed' to make conveyance of the land upon payment of the purchase money. On the fifth day of February,…
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