Federal Land Bank v. Collom

On December 15, 1928, M. T. Collom, appellee’s father, owned the land involved in this suit. On that date he gave a deed of trust on the land to appellant, Federal Land Bank, to secure the payment of a loan. This deed of trust was recorded in Book 63 at p. 318 of the records of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust of the county wherein the land was situated, which is Smith County in this State. It turns out, however, that there are two pages numbered 318 in the record Book No. 63, one of these carrying the record of a deed of trust from W. E. Sullivan and wife to the Land Bank on entirely different…