Wattles v. Slater

The bill of complaint was filed in this cause to foreclose two certain mortgages upon certain land in Lapeer county. Defendant Huber Manufacturing Company is joined under the statute as a subsequent mortgagee. The bill was taken as confessed by the Slaters. The Huber Manufacturing Company answered, claiming priority over complainant’s mortgages. The mortgage to this defendant was in fact given subsequent to the complainant’s mortgages, and was to secure the price of a threshing outfit purchased from this defendant by Frank Slater and another. The written order for this *667machinery recited that…