Abshire v. Williamson

The appellee herein commenced this action in the lower court, making Samuel and Florence B. McCluney, Henry D. Mumert, Peter Nutter, C. Bert Abshire, Christian Blody, and William H. Ernst, auditor of Wells county, Indiana, defendants thereto. The purpose of the suit was to recover a personal judgment of some of the defendants, and obtain a decree foreclosing a mortgage, and declaring the lien thereof to be senior to certain other mortgages held by some of the defendants. The defendant Ernst, as county auditor, appeared and filed an answer and cross-complaint. He made the plaintiff,…