Wilson v. Henderson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chancery Court, Coffee County; O. S. Lewis, Chancellor. Suit by J. E. Henderson against W. J. Wilson and others. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
J. E. Henderson (appellee) took an assignment of a mortgage purporting to be executed by W. J. and Lizzie Wilson (husband and wife) to H. L. Peacock. The mortgage was foreclosed by Kirkland as attorney for Henderson; the attorney bidding in the property at the foreclosure sale, and taking a foreclosure deed thereto in his name by verbal agreement with the assignee to hold the title for him. Kirkland brought an action of ejectment (later revived in the name of the devisee under his will) against the Wilsons to recover the full title to the 160 acres described in the mortgage. On the trial it…
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