Rooker v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The Aetna Trust and Savings Company, as administrator of the estate of Mary I. Hollowell, deceased, filed a petition in the Marion Probate Court to sell certain real estate belonging to said estate, to make assets with which to pay debts. Among other defendants were William V. Rooker, the appellant, who claimed a judgment lien, and the John Plancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the appellees, who claimed a mortgage lien on said real estate. Issues were formed upon the petition to sell real estate and the various answers thereto, the counterclaim of the appellant, the cross-complaint…