Moffatt v. Bulson

Haynes, C.

—This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage made by respondent to appellant. The note and mortgage were made March 5, 1888, the note being for five thousand dollars, payable in annual installments of five hundred dollars, together with annual interest on the principal unpaid at ten per cent per annum. The answer alleged that on December 22, 1886, plaintiff was

*108in the possession and actual occupancy of a certain ranch known as the Moffatt and Bable ranch, containing 560 acres, 80 acres of which he had filed upon under the desert-land act; that another part of said ranch,…