Utah Savings and Loan Association v. Mecham

JONES, District Judge.

Three principal actions to foreclose real estate mortgages, wherein a number of defendants appeared and claimed material-men’s liens, were consolidated for trial below and are similarly appealed. From judgments foreclosing all of the mortgages and some of the claimed liens, an appeal and cross-appeal have been perfected.

These combined actions, comprising 36 causes of action, presented a complex and difficult set of problems for the trial court to resolve. As we have surveyed the record it appears that uncertainty as to certain principles of law, hereinafter discussed,…