Phillips v. Parker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This was a controversy respecting the foreclosure of a real-estate mortgage. It is complicated by a previous action attempting to foreclose the mortgage and by certain contracts and acts of the parties both before and since the earlier action.

The pertinent facts may be stated as follows: Eliza C. McKeever, an elderly widow, owned the northwest quarter of section 11, less one acre of school ground, hereinafter referred to as the “quarter section,” and the south 104 acres of the northeast quarter of section 12, hereinafter spoken of as the…