Sheffield v. Sheffield

E. M. Sheffield had three notes against Mrs. Lila Sheffield, his brother’s wife, one of them being secured by a deed to the land, made subject to a prior security deed in favor of the "Volunteer State Life Insurance Company. E. M. Sheffield sued on *249each, of these notes. Lila Sheffield filed a defense, contending that the notes were given in part for a debt of her husband, B. A. Sheffield, and partly for her own debt, and that she was not liable on the notes. Juries returned verdicts in favor of E. M. Sheffield, and executions issued. Lila Sheffield carried the cases to the Court of Appeals…