State ex rel. Ewing v. Morris

— In March, 1916, a mortgage debt being-in default by the Kiona-Benton Land & Water Company, hereinafter called the land company, to the North American Mortgage Company, foreclosure of the mortgage was instituted.' At about the same time, there being another mortgage for a large amount from the same mortgagor, which had been assigned to the International Mortgage Bank, in April, 1916, foreclosure of that mortgage was commenced. Both were commenced in the superior court for Benton county. It had been agreed between the mortgage companies and the mortgagor that separate mortgage foreclosures…