Burns v. Fielder

The question is, Did the grantee in a deed and the parties who executed and delivered it, such deed being’ absolute in form, intend that it should be a mortgage?

Although numerous litigants appear in the record, some as cross-appellants and some as cross-appellees, it is not necessary, in the view we take of the case, to refer to all of them, or to review their contentions. The principals are W. A. Burps and JVM. Fielder.

Fielder married Burns’ daughter, Eva, and the couple had for a long time resided on the rural- property owned by Fielder, which he either inherited or acquired by will from…