Butler v. Peterson

Ames, C.

This is an action both by petition and cross-petition to determine and quiet title and possession in a tract of land. The facts so far as they are disclosed by the record are not in dispute. The common source of title or alleged title is one H. N. McKee, who on May 16, 1890, executed and de*714livered to one Edgeworth a warranty deed of the premises for an expressed consideration of $8,000, hut the name of a grantee Avas intentionally omitted from the instrument, Avhich was intended as security for a loan of money then made or thereafter to he procured. Four days afterwards Edgeworth…