Jones v. Federal Farm Mortgage Corp.

Terrell, C. J. —

This is a mortgage foreclosure and the second time it has appeared in this Court. See F. W. Jones, et al., v. Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, 132 Fla. 807, 182 So. 226. The instant appeal is from a decree striking an amended answer to the bill of complaint, the defense proffered therein being that the mortgage was void because it covered the homestead and the mortgagor was at the time the head of a family and could not execute such a mortgage.

The sole question presented for adjudication is whether or not Rebecca E. Jones, the mortgagor, was the head of a family at the time…