McMullen, Et Ux. v. Inland Realty Corp.

J. I. Kellums and wife executed a mortgage to one Charles W. Rinehart. Rinehart assigned it to Inland Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation. The assignee, without undertaking to qualify as a foreign corporation authorized to do business in Florida, brought a suit to foreclose, based upon its being the assignee of the mortgage. The Kellums had previously conveyed the legal title to the property to F. C. McMullen, who thereupon assumed and agreed to pay the mortgage. So the foreclosure suit was accordingly brought against the Kellums, as the original mortgagors, and against McMullen as…