Hightower & Co. v. First National Bank

First National Bank of Blakely filed a petition against Dock Moses and Hightower & Co., alleging, in substance, that Moses was indebted to the bank in a stated sum, and had in the year 1905 executed and delivered to the bank a mortgage to secure the indebtedness, covering personal property, and land described as “forty-one acres of land, more or less, off the northwest comer of lot No. 26 in 28th dist. Early Co., Ga.; ” that the note, not being paid at maturity, May, 1907, was renewed, and, without the mortgage being canceled or delivered up, Moses executed a deed to .secure the indebtedness,…