Meyer v. Schmidt

Plaintiff and cross-petitioner each secured decrees of foreclosure. The defense was that the mortgagor, in concurrent mortgages given plaintiff and cross-petitioner, was weak-minded in business matters, could not read English, and executed the instruments through the undue influence of her husband. The defendants appeal.'

Plaintiff filed a petition- to foreclose a mortgage on 120 acres of land in Seward county because of the default in the payments due on two notes, one of $1,000 and one of $2,750. The cross-petitioner, Dora Banzhof, also brought action for the foreclosure of a similar…