Wittwer v. Dorland

On October 24, 1973, Lyle and Mae Wittwer filed a petition in the District Court for Richardson County, Nebraska, to foreclose a mortgage on approximately 900 acres of land located in Richardson County. Named among the defendants were Cetha Floy Dorland and her son, Warren Bruce Dorland, appellee in this case. The Wittwers’ petition made reference to a deed being held in escrow at the Farmers State Bank in Sabetha, Kansas, which purported to transfer the real estate, which was the subject of the foreclosure action, to the appellee upon the death of Cetha Floy Dorland.

In her answer to the…