Alexander v. Sherman

This action was brought to quiet title to an unpatented mining claim, located by Joseph Cox and John Demarbaix on the thirty-first day of January, 1881. On the seventeenth day of March, 1884, Demarbaix mortgaged his interest in the mine to Myrtle Godchaux, for $4,500, payable six months after date. The mortgage was an ordinary •quitclaim deed in form, with a defeasance. The mortgage was foreclosed, and on the thirtieth day of December, 1884, Bindley H. Orme, the sheriff of Maricopa county, sold the property, under a decree of foreclosure and order of sale, to Myrtle Godchaux for the sum of…