Corinth Bank & Trust Co. v. King
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Colbert Chancery Court. Heard Before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by Lida C. King against the Corinth Bank & Trust Company, and others, to declare certain mortgages void because given as security for her husband’s debt, and to cancel same. Decree for complainant and respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Colbert Chancery Court. Heard Before Hon. W. H. Simpson. Bill by Lida C. King against the Corinth Bank & Trust Company, and others, to declare certain mortgages void because given as security for her husband’s debt, and to cancel same. Decree for complainant and respondents appeal. Counsel discuss the evidence with the insistence that it makes a very different case from that of Elkins v. Bank of Henry, 60 South. 96, and that under the authority of Hollingsworth v. Hill, 116 Ala. 184, and First Nat. Bank of Gadsden v. Moragne, 128 Ala. 161, and Sample v. Guyer, 143 Ala. 615, the…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J.
Lida C. King filed this bill for the purpose of having canceled as clouds upon her-*405title two mortgages which she executed upon certain of her lands. One of these mortgages was made to the Corinth Bank & Trust Company and the other to the Tishomingo Savings Institution. Mrs. Lida C. King when she executed the mortgages was and is now a resident of Colbert county, Ala., and the lands mortgaged by her are situated in said county, and they are now and were when she filed this bill, in her possession. Complainant is a married woman, the wife of Bruce King, and she claims that the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Elkins v. Bank of HenrySupreme Court of Alabama · 1912
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