Gamble v. Johnson

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.

Appellees, Johnson and wife, brought suit to quiet title to the land here involved; and the appellants (heirs of J. N. Peters) resisted the suit. From a decree quieting appellees’ title, there is this appeal.

In 1932, J. N. Peters owned the 40 acre tract herein called “the land.” E. S. Jones sought to foreclose a mortgage Peters had given him on the land; and, in order to get money to pay the Jones debt and also a debt to Howard Billing, Peters executed, acknowledged and delivered to Howard Billing an instrument in all respects a warranty deed, except that, after the…