Butler & Thompson Co. v. Hostettler

This appeal involves two suits originally instituted to foreclose two separate mortgages on two different adjoining tracts of land, which suits were consolidated in the circuit court.

Butler & Thompson Co., a corporation, is the plaintiff in both suits and as originally instituted the suits named the following defendants: John Hostettler, who is appellant here; J. J. Deakin, L. A. Murphy and Alice Gr. Murphy, his wife. On request of the defendant Hostettler, G. S. Butler and Alice B. Butler, his wife; were brought in as defendants in one of the suits. The'first of these suits concerned the…