Peters v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

John Hilliard Peters appealed from the judgment of the trial court, refusing to quiet in him the title to 200 acres of land in Stanton county, and quieting the title in the appellee, William F. Schulz, subject to a mortgage in favor of appellee, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, decreed to be a first lien.

The land came to Peters in 1915 through the duly probated will of his father, John Peters, who died seised of considerable land, and who provided in his will for his widow, his two daughters, and his four sons. Appellant’s arguments are concerned chiefly with a portion of the…