Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Gardner

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This litigation was instigated by appellees. They are Celia Long Gardner, Agnes Long "Whitehead, Tommie Dean Long, and McHenry Long, children of H. T. and Maulcie Long. The purpose of the two separate proceedings they filed was (1) to set aside a 1932 foreclosure by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and (2) to have the court construe, by declaratory judgment, various instruments in the chain of title to the lands involved. On the main issue the chancellor ruled that the mortgage foreclosed was executed by Maulcie Long, for herself and as guardian of the children; that…