Huxley v. Liess

On August 29, 1932, the appellant, Smith Huxley, owned the land in controversy, an unincumbered fractional eighty acres of land in Montgomery county, and also an adjoining forty acres across the road in Cass county. It was also clear. He also owned another farm of one hundred and forty-two acres in Montgomery county on which there was a mortgage, which he was fearful would be foreclosed, and leave a deficiency judgment, which would be a lien on his unincumbered land. His wife was seriously ill with cancer, and was in need of doctoring and nursing. The defendants are wife and husband, the…