Thompson v. Rowe

Rowe, the assignee of some notes and the mortgage securing them, had a decree in the lower court, in his two suits, consolidated and tried as one, foreclosing his mortgage on the real estate and some stock in the irrigation company furnishing water for the land mortgaged. The mortgagor had bought the land and had forthwith given the mortgage to his grantors, probably to secure the purchase price, and never had but one certificate, which was *362for 29 shares of stock out of the 189 shares, which belonged to his grantors, turned over to him, or transferred to him on the books of the irrigation…