Union Trust Co. v. Lessovitz

The Union Trust Company filed an action in the court of common pleas seeking to recover a judgment upon a promissory note of certain of the defendants and to have its mortgage upon their property foreclosed. Taylor, the principal defendant in the action, filed his answer and cross-petition, denying the allegations of the plaintiff’s petition because of want of knowledge; he also set forth in his cross-petition a judgment procured by him against the mortgagors on July 19, 1927, and alleged that his judgment was prior to the mortgage of the trust company filed for record in the following…