Brooks v. American Lumber & Construction Co.

Appeal from a judgment reforming an instrument, purporting to be a satisfaction of a real estate mortgage, on the ground of mutual mistake, and foreclosing the mortgage therein mentioned.

The defendant, American Lumber & Construction Company, was the owner of 19 parcels of real estate, situated in St. Louis county, this state, subject to five mortgages — one for $4,000 covering five lots, and four of $1,500 each upon six other of such lots. In March, 1919, the owner executed, to the plaintiff, its five promissory notes for $3,000 each, and, at the same time, executed a mortgage upon all of…