Jones v. Nix

This is a suit by the appellant to foreclose a real estate mortgage executed by Henry Dodd on February 9, 1957, securing a note for $256. The debtor died, insolvent, on November 13 of that year, and his estate was administered in the probate court. In the course of those proceedings the administrator obtained an order for the sale of the land in question, for the payment of debts. The land was duly sold on April 14, 1959, to the appellee Estes, who bid and paid $260 for the property. The sale was promptly confirmed, and Estes received a deed from the administrator.

Thereafter, on June 22,1959,…