Hilt v. Griffin

Samuel W. Hilt and wife, who reside in the state of Missouri, purchased a farm from Theodore Griffin which is located in Leavenworth county, Kansas. The purchase-price of the farm was represented by promissory notes of $1000 each, madé payable one each year, successively. These notes were secured by a mortgage on the farm and also by a mortgage on forty acres of land situated in the state of Missouri. There was also a note for $250 transferred to Griffin.

Sometime afterward the Hilts wanted the mortgage *784on the forty acres released, which the plaintiff did, and received in place thereof…