Pratt v. Nixon
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Marengo. Heard before the Hon. Tnos. W. Coleman. The bill in this case was filed on the lith of November,.' 1887, by Merrill E. Pratt, against William G. Nixon and wife,, and a foreign corporation called the Dundee Mortgage ancl Trust Investment Company, Limited, of Scotland; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a barge tract of land, which said Nixon and wife had executed to the complainant, and to have two former mortgages, which they had…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Marengo. Heard before the Hon. Tnos. W. Coleman. The bill in this case was filed on the lith of November,.' 1887, by Merrill E. Pratt, against William G. Nixon and wife,, and a foreign corporation called the Dundee Mortgage ancl Trust Investment Company, Limited, of Scotland; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a barge tract of land, which said Nixon and wife had executed to the complainant, and to have two former mortgages, which they had executed to said foreign corporation, declared null and void. The opinion describes each of these mortgages, and states…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
In January, 1882, Francis Smith & Go. opened an office in this city, Montgomery. They were loan and mortgage brokers, and so announced themselves. J. R. and S. W. John, a law firm, having their- office in Selma of this State, were agents or brokers, and tendered their services to money-lenders desiring to place money at interest, and to money-borrowers desiring to obtain loans. The difference in their professed lines of business consisted in the fact, that while Francis Smith & Go. claimed to represent only borrowers seeking to obtain money on mortgaged real estate as security, John A John…
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