Old Line Insurance v. Stark

Blackledge, District Judge.

This case is presented here by the Elmwood State Bank, defendant and sole appellant. It is an action to foreclose certain mortgages, in the trial of which it developed that the title of the original mortgagor was derived from the will of Joseph Mullin which was probated in January, 1916, and contained the following provisions:

“I give and bequeath to my daughtar, Minnie B. Stark,, a life lease on the following described real estate: The west half of the southwest quarter of section eight (8), range ten (10), town ten (10), in Cass county, Nebraska, together with the…