Johnson v. Wilson
Johnson v. Wilson
Opinion of the Court
The sixteen acres of land conveyed to. plaintiff by Hepler, though subject to the former deeds of trust under which the sale took place, was not in equity subject to the last deed of trust, because the parties in interest had notice of the conveyance to plaintiff. He who takes with notice of an equity, takes subject thereto. The case stands before us then precisely as if the sixteen acres had not. been sold under the prior deeds of trust, and the defendants were attempting to enforce their subordinate equitable and legal rights against the prior and well known equities of the plaintiff. True, the sixteen acres of land have been converted into money, but this does not affect the question since equity will, on proper occasions, treat money as land, and vice versa. The petition concludes with
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