Baird v. Reininghaus

— April 9, 1887, the plaintiff was the owner of a small tract of land in Yan Burén county, Iowa. On that day she claims she borrowed two hundred and forty dollars of the defendant, to draw interest at ten per cent, per annum, and said principal sum and interest to be paid to the defendant April 9, 1888; that to secure such payment she executed to the defendant a deed of conveyance of the premises; that the deed, while absolute in form, was in fact given to secure said sum so borrowed, and in fact a mortgage. She also avers that she, on April 2, 1888, tendered the amount due on said loan to…