Fidelity Bond & Mortg. Co. v. Grand Lodge, I. O. O. E. of Tenn.

WEST, District Judge.

This is an appeal by Fidelity Bond & Mortgage Co., a corporation of the state of Missouri, from a decree of the District Court, which dismissed for lack of jurisdiction so much of appellant’s bill as sought the foreclosure of a trust deed.

The deed was executed by the Grand Lodge I. O. O. .F. of Tennessee as grantor, to Nashville Trust Company as trustee, both these parties being Tennessee corporations, and the appellant also executed it as a party. By this trust deed or mortgage, the grantor conveyed to the trustee a parcel of land in the city of Nashville, Tenn., with…