Lenox v. Reed
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Doniphan District Court. Lenox, as plaintiff, brought suit against Henry Reed, John A. Bruce, and Aaron Clem, as defendants.
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Error from Doniphan District Court. Lenox, as plaintiff, brought suit against Henry Reed, John A. Bruce, and Aaron Clem, as defendants. Plaintiff sought to have a certain claim asserted by her “adjudged and decreed to be a lien on” certain real estate, “and that said land stand charged with the payment of the same, and her said lien be adjudged to be prior to any lien which defendants or either of them may have thereon, and that said land be-ordered to be sold, and the proceeds of said sale be applied to payment first of the costs of this suit, then to the payment of plaintiff’s demand…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
statement of the case. The petition in the court below states substantially the following facts: On April 29th, 1858/ Blackstone M. Eector, who was at that time the owner in fee simple of the N.W.J of sec, 29, township 4, range 20, in Doniphan county, mortgaged the same to James P. Benson to secure the payment of $280, with interest at the rate of five per cent, per month, which mortgage was recorded May 3d, 1858, and became due April 29th, 1859. Eector afterward conveyed said land to Brenner, Brenner and wife to Hoffman, and Hoffman to…
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