Green v. Green

The principal question in this case is whether the plaintiff-appellee Lula Bell Green is barred by limitations or laches from foreclosing a mortgage executed in 1929 by the appellee Morton Green, who is now Lula Bell’s husband. The chancellor held that the cause of action is not barred and accordingly entered a decree of foreclosure. The appellants, defendants below, are the personal representative and heirs of Addie Bell Green, a sister of Morton’s, who held the record title to the mortgaged land at the time of her death in 1957.

This is the chronological sequence of events: In 1929 Morton…