Shoemaker v. Ragland

Plaintiff, T. J. Shoemaker, as administrator of the estate of J. H. Augustine, commenced this action to foreclose two real estate mortgages executed by the defendants, N. A. and Gertrude Ragland, husband and wife, to J. D. Plumb, and assigned to Augustine. The chronology of the case material to the propositions involved on this appeal is as follows:

On the 22d day of March, 1917, the defendant N. A. Rag-land became seized in fee simple, by deed of bargain and sale, executed by one Grover C. Duncan, of a certain parcel of real estate described as Lot 166 in Melrose Park, an addition to the…