Wing v. Union Central Life Insurance

TBIMBLE, J.-

This suit, founded upon section 2850, Bevised Statutes 1909, is brought to enforce a forfeiture of $700, being ten per cent of the amount of a deed of trust, and to collect $250 general damages, for failure to release said deed of trust.. The case was tried by the court sitting as a jury, and judgment was rendered for the penalty only, with interest thereon from date of the alleged refusal to satisfy.

Defendant held a deed of trust on the farm of P. H. Burton to secure the latter’s negotiable promissory note for $7000 due ten years after date bearing six per. cent interest per…