Mid-State Homes, Inc. v. Ledford

This is an appeal by Mid-State Homes, Inc., a Corporation, from a final decree of the Circuit Court of DeKalb County, Alabama, in Equity, granting relief to appellees from the provisions of a real estate mortgage which, according to the bill of complaint, was signed by appellees to secure a debt that constituted a consideration for a dwelling house erected on appellees’ land by appellant’s transferor, Jim Walter Corporation.

The bill of complaint filed by appellees alleged inter alia that they signed the mortgage in blank, but not before a Notary Public; that there had been misrepresentations…