Paramount Securities Co. v. Tasker

— This is a controversy involving a claim of homestead.

Defendants, J. T. Tasker and Effie M. Tasker, being the owners of the north half of lots 3 and 4, block 28, Original Town of Kelso, mortgaged the east sixty-two feet of the tract, upon which stood a duplex dwelling. The west thirty-eight feet of the tract was not included in the mortgage. Suit was instituted in the superior court of Cowlitz county to foreclose the mortgage, and a decree was entered November 7, 1932.

Prior to this, and on July 29, 1932, the plaintiff, Paramount Securities Company, obtained a personal judgment in the…