Carpenter v. Walker

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of Arkansas county wherein appellants were plaintiffs and appellees were defendants and cross-complainants.

The issues involved were:

First, whether a quit-claim deed executed by Nelia Walker to Carpenter on the 19th da}?- of May, 1936, was intended as a deed absolute, as shown on its face, or as a mortgage or security for the payment of money upon the following described real estate, in the county of Arkansas, state of Arkansas, to-wit:

“Commencing’ at the northwest corner of block eight (8), Carpenter & Spratlin’s Addition to the town of…