18 Kan. 489 | Kan. | 1877
The opinion of the court was delivered by
In this action, Samuel Morning was the plaintiff below, and A. J. Scott and several others were the defendants. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff below and against all the defendants; but as Scott is the only person who is now complaining of such judgment, it will be necessary only to consider whether the judgment rendered against him was correct, or not.
The plaintiff set forth in his petition that three of said defendants (other than Scott) executed to him a certain promissory note; that one of said three, and another defendant (other than Scott) executed to him a.real-estate mortgage to secure said note; and that’Scott claimed to have some interest in the mortgaged property, but that whatever interest he might have therein was junior and inferior to plaintiffls mortgage-lien. Scott answered to this petition, setting forth in his auswer, in detail, that he was thé absolute and exclusive
The judgment of the court below as against the defendant Scott will be reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings.