Corlett v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, C. J. :

This was an action brought by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company against William T. Corlett, J. E. Jarvis and others to foreclose a real-estate mortgage. Jarvis was the owner of the land by conveyance from the mortgagor. He filed an answer averring bis ownership and setting up the statute of limitations as a defense to the plaintiff's petition, and praying that, in consideration of the bar of the statute pleaded, the plaintiff's mortgage be canceled and his title quieted as against the plaintiff's assertion of a mortgage lien.…