Hargreaves v. Menken

Irvine, C.

Hargreaves began this action against Menken and wife, Herman and wife, and J. H. Shepherd to foreclose a mortgage made by the Menkens to Hargreaves to secure the payment of a note for $316. Shepherd admitted the allegations of the petition, and by cross-petition asked a foreclosure of the same mortgage, alleging that it also secured a note of $220 in favor of Shepherd. The Menkens answered both the petition and cross-petition, alleging that the mortgaged premises had been their homestead, and'that the notes and mortgage were procured from them by duress, in that at the time Menken…