Mercer v. McPherson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, O. J.:

This was a proceeding to quiet title in which it was necessary to determine which of the contending parties had the right to redeem from a judicial sale of real estate. A quarter-section of land was owned by John G. McDill, and in 1893 it was mortgaged for $800. In that year he sold eighty acres of the land to his son-in-law, G. W. McPherson, and the consideration was the assumption and payment of the mortgage debt upon the whole tract. McPherson went into possession in 1893, made valuable and lasting improvements, paid the interest on…