Legal Opinion
Exchange National Bank v. Pearsons-Taft Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 18, 1924No. 4323PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The defendants in error insist, that Edwin Dorminy having made a mortgage to the Citizens Bank of Oeilla, the paper which was afterwards transferred to the plaintiff in error, Exchange National Bank of Fitzgerald, he had no title to the lands described in the mortgage upon which the instrument purports to create a lien; that the title to the lands was in the Land Company, under their first deed, and an equity was in the same company under their second deed to secure debt; that it was a matter of legal impossibility for Edwin Dorminy to create a mortgage…
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