Legal Opinion

Patterson v. Mills

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 23, 1886PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from, Hamilton District Court. Action in chancery to foreclose a mortgage. Upon a trial on the merits there was a decree for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtBeok, J.

I. The facts disclosed by the evidence, as we find them, are these: In December, 1875, Samuel Mills I executed a mortgage to Nathaniel Green, conveying a quariter section of land in Webster county to secure the payment of $2,600. The mortgage was filed for record May 26,1876. June 21, 1883, Green assigned and transferred the mortgage to the plaintiff as the guardian of Clement E. Mills, the son of. Samuel Mills, who died before this assignment. The mortgage was executed under the following circumstances, and for the purposes hereafter stated. Samuel Mills had *757been divorced from bis wife, the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Woodward v. DavisSupreme Court of Iowa · 1880
  2. Holland v. HensleySupreme Court of Iowa · 1856

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Harris Banking Co. v. MillerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1905
  2. Jones v. NicholasSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911
  3. Moore v. OliveSupreme Court of Iowa · 1901
  4. Heckmann Ex Rel. Heckmann v. Brenton State BankSupreme Court of Iowa · 1940
  5. In re Estate of FisherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905

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