Templeton v. Stephens

The pleadings in this case are prolix by reason of the number of parties involved as defendants and cross petitioners, but the issues, however, are well .defined. The legal problem for solution presents the question of priority of the claimed mortgage liens’ on the real- estate in controversy. Th.e approach to the facts and issues should be through the avenue of title and the mortgages as disclosed by the instant record. - It may be visualized as follows:

In 1921, John F. Haidsiak '(not a party here) as legal titleholder of the Ni/2 of SE14 and the E. 60 acres of the of NE14 Sec. 8-68-34,…