Clarke v. the Fed. Land Bk. of St. Louis

A decree was rendered December 18, 1936, on personal service, foreclosing a mortgage executed by W. B. Clarke, and Carrie L., Ms wife, to The Federal Land Bank of St. Louis. The mortgaged lands were sold, pursuant to this decree, by the commissioner appointed for that purpose, on February 6, 1937, to the land bank, and the report of this sale was duly made and filed May 25, 1937, and was approved and confirmed on the same day. Thereafter, and on the same day, the commissioner, in open court, acknowledged the execution of a deed to the bank for the lands which he had sold. The deed was…