Jarl v. Pritchett

1. Limitation of actions: when contract “arises” in foreign state. — Plaintiff is the payee in a note for $2,272.97, executed by the defendant Fred Pritchett, July 16, 1906, payable one year after date. This note was given by the maker in Colorado, and a mortgage covering land in Iowa thence executed to secure its payment. Foreclosure of the mortgage was not sought in this action, but a writ of attachment was sued out and levied on the mortgaged land. The petition, filed November 13,1919, alleged, and the evidence proved, that the defendant had not been a resident of this state since the note…