Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. v. Howe

BELL, District Judge.

This is an action brought by appellant as plaintiff against W. H. Howe, individually, and as trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Helena, Arkansas, the appellee, as defendant, to foreclose a mortgage, a deed of trust in form, on the property of the church and to obtain a deficiency judgment against Howe personally. On the death of Howe, subsequent to the trial of the case, Eva M. Howe, administratrix of the estate of W. H. Howe, deceased, was substituted as appellee.

The church is an unincorporated religious association of which S. C. Moore, S. A. Wooten, G. L. Davidson…