Mortgage Trust Co. of Pennsylvania v. Moore

This was a suit by Thomas W. Moore against his co-appellees and the appellant, The Mortgage Trust Company, of Pennsylvania, to enforce a lien upon real estate created by the deed and last will of John Makemson.

The sufficiency of the complaint is the first question presented. It alleged that John Makemson, on the third day of July, 1888, his wife joining, made a deed for one hundred acres of land in Kosciusko county to his son, William G. Makemson, said deed containing a condition that the grantee should execute his note to the grantor’s wife for a stated sum per annum during her lifetime, if…