Parkin v. Sykes

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Appeal from an order denying a motion for judgment against respondent, Hilda Sykes, notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial.

Her husband, Roy Sykes, owned an undivided half interest, which he had mortgaged, in a farm. He and his wife occupied another farm, under a lease executed by him alone, owned by W. H. Labbitt. Unable to meet a rent payment due under the lease in the fall of 1931, Roy Sykes gave a second mortgage on his interest to Labbitt. Confronted with a like difficulty the following year, it was arranged that Labbitt should have a third mortgage to…