Polite v. Williams

Mary E. Polite and her husband were tenants in common of a tract of land. They jointly executed a deed to the land to secure a debt. The holder of the deed advertised the land for sale under the power contained therein; and Mary E. Polite filed an equitable suit to enjoin the contemplated sale, and to cancel the deed in so far as it affected her interest in the land, upon the grounds that the deed (executed in 1912) was infected with usury, and' that the debt was the debt of the husband and not of the plaintiff. To the refusal of an interlocutory injunction the plaintiff excepted; and the…