Chosen Friends Home Loan & Savings League v. Otterson
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court for Albany County, Hon. J. H. Hayford, Judge. This was an action brought upon a bond and mortgage against Herman Otterson, Mary Otterson, his wife, and the Laramie Co-operative Association, as defendants. The mortgage was signed by Herman Otterson and Mary Otterson.
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ERROR to the District Court for Albany County, Hon. J. H. Hayford, Judge. This was an action brought upon a bond and mortgage against Herman Otterson, Mary Otterson, his wife, and the Laramie Co-operative Association, as defendants. The mortgage was signed by Herman Otterson and Mary Otterson. The latter filed a separate answer, setting forth that when the mortgage was executed she could not read or write the English language, and understood it very imperfectly; that she did not understand the nature of the instrument or its effect, and that the same was in no manner explained to her, all of…
1Opinion of the Court
Corn, Justice.
This was an action brought to foreclose a mortgage. The defendants, Herman and Mary Otterson, set up by way of defense that the execution of the mortgage was procured by fraud, and that the mortgaged property was the homestead of the defendants Otterson; that the defendant Mary Otterson, who was the wife of Herman Otterson, did not have explained to her the nature and effect of the instrument, or her right of homestead, and that, not*being able to read or understand English, she *92had no knowledge of her rights in the premises, and did not understand the nature or effect of the…
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