All the legal questions involved in this case have already been passed upon and decided by this court in other cases. We cite below the decisions decisive of the matters presented:
I. The reply was waived, as the case was tried in every respect the same as it would have been tried, if a reply had been filed. Hopkins v. Cothran, 17 Kas. 173; Wilson v. Fuller, 9 Kas. 177, 190.
II. In regard to the allegation that the defendant in error had stated no facts to entitle him to the judgment that his mortgage was prior in right to the interest of the plaintiff in error to all of the tracts of land in controversy, see Barrett
III. That the question of adverse and paramount title-may be litigated in an action to foreclose a mortgage, see Bradley v. Parkhurst, ante, p. 462.
IY. The judgment barring the rights and interests of the plaintiff in error, should be made to operate only in connection with the sale of the mortgaged premises, and after such sale has been made; and the judgment will be corrected accordingly. Short v. Nooner, 16 Kas. 220.
The costs in this court will be divided.