Weatherford v. National Life Ins. Co.

BOND, Justice.

National Life Insurance Company, claiming to be the owner1 of a note assigned to it by the Deming Investment Company and secured by a deed of trust on lands and premises alleged to be owned and possessed by the defendants W. Weatherford and Tom B. Owens, instituted this suit against Weatherford, Owens, the Deming Investment Company, and R. W. Franklin to establish its debt and foreclose its mortgage lien. No personal judgment was sought against either of the defendants.

The record shows that, on August 15, 1922, C. T. Vinson and wife; Velie Vinson, executed to the Deming…