Masheter v. Lanning

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This was an action by a judgment debtor against the administrator of two estates of deceased cojudgment debtors to compel contribution after the joint and several judgment had been satisfied out of the property of the plaintiff. The plaintiff was one of four judgment debtors in a prior mortgage-foreclosure action. Plaintiff prevailed in the instant action for contribution, and the administrators of the decedents’ estates have appealed.

The judgment debtors had purchased the mortgaged real estate and assumed payment of the mortgage debt. A…