Legal Opinion

O'Keefe v. Foster

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided May 29, 1895PublishedCited by 18 opinions

ERROR to the District Court for Laramie County, Hof. RichaRD H. Scott, Judge. Action by Julia O’Keefe against Colin Hunter, administrator of the estate, and certain named persons as heirs, of George L. Beard, deceased.

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ERROR to the District Court for Laramie County, Hof. RichaRD H. Scott, Judge. Action by Julia O’Keefe against Colin Hunter, administrator of the estate, and certain named persons as heirs, of George L. Beard, deceased. The record contains an amended and supplemental petition alleging the execution and delivery to plaintiff, on April 1, 1891, by said decedent, of a certain promissory note for $2,000, and a mortgage to secure the payment of the same covering certain real estate 'in the County of Laramie. . That the entire agreement was not expressed in said instruments, in that it was…

1Opinion of the Court

Groesbeck, Chief Justice.

The original action was instituted in the district court for Laramie county by the plaintiff in error against Hunter, as administrator of the estate, and certain other defendants as heirs at law of George L. Beard, deceased, for the reformation of a certain promissory note and the mortgage of certain realty securing it, executed by said Beard in his life time, for a foreclosure of the mortgage when reformed and for judgment for attorney’s fees and for any deficiency arising upon the sale of the mortgaged property. Judgment and decree in default was for the plaintiff…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Goddard v. OrdwaySupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  2. Bernard & Co. v. Douglas & WatsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1860
  3. Smith v. SchwedU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri · 1881

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Lo Sasso v. BraunWyoming Supreme Court · 1963
  2. Arnold v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1957
  3. Branch v. LambertOregon Supreme Court · 1922
  4. First National Bank of Rock Springs v. LudvigsenWyoming Supreme Court · 1899
  5. Estate of Fitzgerald v. First National BankNebraska Supreme Court · 1902

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