Northwestern Barb Wire Co. v. Randolph
Northwestern Barb Wire Co. v. Randolph
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
On the 7th day of September, 1887, the plaintiff in error commenced its action in the district court of Cloud county, alleging in its petition the following material facts: On the 10th day of December, 1885, one George H. Wells and wife executed to one R. F. Hermon a promissory note for $375, securing payment of the same by a mortgage on the northwest quarter of section 23, town 7, range 1 west of the sixth principal meridian. Hermon sold and transferred the note and assigned the mortgage to the plaintiff in error on the 30th day of November, 1886. On the 5th day of November, 1886, George H. Wells and wife sold and conveyed said mortgaged tract of land to John F. Randolph, who assumed and agreed to pay the mortgage given by Wells and wife to Hermon and assigned to plaintiff in error. On the 6th day of November, 1886, Randolph and wife conveyed the land by warranty deed to one W. J. Nye. On the 8th day of November, 1886, Nye and wife executed and delivered
The petition alleges that Wells and wife conveyed the land, after they had executed the mortgage to Hermon, to John F. Randolph, .and that by the acceptance of that conveyance he assumed and agreed to pay the mortgage to Hermon. The petition also alleges that Randolph and wife conveyed the mortgaged land to Nye by warranty deed, and hence Randolph is obligated to pay the Hermon mortgage, both by his assumption in the deed of Wells and his warranty in the deed to Nye, and this personal obligation ought to be enforced against him by judgment and execution for the protection of Wells, as well as for the protection of Nye. The reason given by the trial court for the modification of the original judgment is, that it was not supported by the allegations of the petition, and while this is true as to the payment of the plaintiff’s judgment against Nye, making that payable after the costs and taxes are paid, and before the judgment against Wells is paid, it is not true as to Randolph. The petition does contain positive averments of the assumption by Randolph of the Hermon mortgage, and of his conveyance of the mortgaged land to Nye, a subsequent mortgagor, by warranty deed.
We think that the personal judgment against Randolph in the original entry was right, and if it can be collected by execution, the amount so collected from Randolph personally should be applied to the satisfaction of the mortgage executed by Wells and wife to Hermon. In all other respects the judgment as modified is affirmed.
By the Court: It is so ordered.
Reference
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- The Northwestern Barb Wire Company v. John F. Randolph
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