Merriott v. Kilgore

In September, 1936, the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis filed suit in the Saline county chancery court against J. D. Kilgore to foreclose a mortgage which Kilgore had made to it to secure an indebtedness of approximately $3,000. The mortgage included something-like 270 acres of land in Saline county and a number of persons were made defendants in the foreclosure suits, among them J. T. Merriott, appellant.

Appellant filed answer in the' foreclosure suit on January 7, 1937, and a cross-complaint against the Federal Land Bank and J. D. Kilgore, in which he alleged that he was the owner of ten…