Roberts v. Trammell

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff against the defendants to recover the possession of a certain described house and lot in the city of Griffin, and the value of the rent thereof. The defendants filed an equitable plea to the plaintiff’s action, alleging that the deed under which the plaintiffs claimed the title, was executed as a security for the loan of money, and was nothing more than an equitable mortgage, but the defendant did not offer to redeem the premises conveyed, by paying the money alleged to have been borrowed with the lawful interest…