Scranton v. Whitlock

Plaintiff brought an action to quiet title to residence property in Powell, Wyoming. Defendants answered that they claimed an interest in the property, setting up an affirmative defense and alleging in a counterclaim that on January 30, 1958, the Whit-locks, husband and wife, had executed a promissory note for $51,000 to the Scran-tons, husband and wife, and to secure it had given a mortgage on the property in question on which some $6,000 had subsequently been paid, leaving a balance of approximately $45,000 due and owing, and that on March 2, 1962, the realty had been set over in a divorce…