Legal Opinion

Keister v. Myers

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 18, 1888No. 13,267PublishedCited by 15 opinions

From the Fulton Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, C. J.

It is charged in a complaint by Elizabeth Myers against Keister and wife, that the defendants agreed to execute a mortgage conveying the whole of a certain tract of land in Fulton county, containing forty-three- and a fraction acres, as security for a debt of live hundred dollars, evidenced by a promissory note, payable by Keister to Margaret Paffenberger, with interest.

It is alleged that notwithstanding the agreement to convey the entire tract as a security, and that both parties intended at the time the mortgage was signed and delivered that it should include the whole, yet, by a mistake of…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Baldwin v. KerlinIndiana Supreme Court · 1873
  2. Baker v. PyattIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
  3. Durham v. BischofIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
  4. Allen v. AndersonIndiana Supreme Court · 1873
  5. Morrison v. CollierIndiana Supreme Court · 1881

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Citizens' National Bank v. JudyIndiana Supreme Court · 1896
  2. Home Owners' Loan Corporation v. StevensSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1935
  3. Calton v. LewisIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
  4. Gray v. Supreme Lodge, Knights of HonorIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
  5. Henenberg v. WinnCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1927

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