57 Kan. 450 | Kan. | 1896
Two cases are submitted, together. Both were cases to foreclose mortgages executed by Emanuel Johns and wife to the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company. Each mortgage was for $2,500. The one under which Ellis claims covers lot 8, and the one sued on by Scattergood covers lot 9 in block 3 in the city of Lyons. Both plaintiffs claim under assignments executed in blank by the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company. The controversy in this Court is between these plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, and certain persons who claimed mechanics’ liens on both lots. The petitions allege the execution of negotiable bonds, and mortgages securing the same, by Johns and wife to the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company, and the indorsement and delivery thereof to the plaintiffs ; and that the defendants claim liens on the property which are inferior to those of the plaintiffs. The defendants answered, in substance, that an action had been brought by the Bank of Lyons against the mortgagors and divers other parties claiming an interest in the land under them, the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company, Isaac L. Miller, Colliday and Hartley, and the answering defendants ; that answers were filed in said action in behalf of Miller, claiming to hold one of said mortgages by assignment from the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company, and by Colliday and Hartley claiming under the other ; that in that action a judgment was rendered in favor of these defendants, establishing the validity of their liens, and adjudging them prior to the lien of the mortgages of plaintiffs in these Cases. On the trial, the record mentioned in the answers was introduced in evidence ; and the Court held that the judgment rendered in the action brought by the Bank of Lyons was conclusive on the plaintiffs.
The judgments in both cases are affirmed.