Federal Land Bank of St. Louis v. Ballentine

Appellant filed a complaint in the Grant Chancery Court on September 26, 1931, to foreclose a deed of trust executed to it by Virgil Ballentine and wife on May 1, 1922, to secure the payment of a $600 loan. The deed of trust described three forty-acre tracts of land. A decree foreclosing the deed of trust was rendered for the want of an answer on October 26,1931, and on January 16, 1932, exceptions to the commissioner’s report of sale under this decree were heard by the court. The court found that notice of the sale had been given for the time and in the manner required by law, and that the…