Rickert

This is an action brought to foreclose a mortgage on personal property owned by defendants Rickert and Widmaier. The defendant Piwald, according to the allegations of the complaint, claims some interest in the property, and because of that fact is joined as defendant. The complaint is in the usual form. The defendant Rickert denies all the material allegations of the complaint, and by way of separate defense alleges that the defendants Rickert and Widmaier and the plaintiff herein entered into an agreement by the terms of which, among other things, it was provided that the present action should be withdrawn and the defendant Ralph Piwald permitted to assume the payment of the note sued on here and to secure which the mortgage here sought to be foreclosed was given. By way of further defense it was alleged that, by virtue of certain contracts entered into on June 23, 1913, between defendant Rickert and one John Crockett, on one side, and one Wilson Chamberlain on the other, the latter agreed to sell, and the said defendant Rickert and the said Crockett agreed to buy, certain described real property for the sum of twenty thousand dollars; that thereafter, and prior to the eighteenth…