59 Kan. 552 | Kan. | 1898
An action was brought to. foreclose a mortgage executed by Jackson and Jemima Cunningham to secure a debt to J. Curtis Smith. L. Scott was employed as an attorney by the Cunninghams, in whose behalf he filed an answer and cross-bill, setting up that a certain other mortgage, which was of record, was not a lien upon the premises, and asking to have it canceled. Upon trial, judgment was given for Smith for the amount of his debt, and for a foreclosure of his mortgage; and judgment was also given upon the cross-petition of the Cunninghams, holding the other mortgage to be void, and canceling the same, and quiet
The judgment of the District Court will, therefore, be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings.