Federal Land Bank v. Green

This action was brought by the plaintiff bank to foreclose a real estate mortgage executed to it by defendants Fremont T. and Mary L. Green. Defendant J. C. Herman filed an answer and cross-complaint in which he asserted and asked foreclosure of a materialman’s lien for lumber and materials alleged to have been furnished by him to complete the construction of a building situated on the lands involved in the complaint. Before trial Herman died and Appelgren, the administrator of his estate, was substituted in his place as a party defendant. Also prior to the trial the bank’s mortgage was…