Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. Blohm

Two mortgage foreclosure proceedings are involved and the cases were consolidated for the purposes of this appeal.

On February 26, 1921, Hans Blohm, and his wife, Lena Blohm, executed a note payable to Mary C. Cairns, or order, in the sum of $9,000, secured by a mortgage upon certain real estate in Crawford County. This note, under its terms, became due March 1, 1922. Said mortgage was recorded in the Crawford County Recorder’s office on February 26, 1921.

Mary C. Cairns, the payee in the note, and mortgagee under the security agreement, died February 16, 1924. Before her death, however,. she…