Stroup v. International Life Ins. Co.

The bill was filed by the appellant against her husband and the appellee the International Life Insurance Company to cancel a mortgage and a deed made in pursuance of its foreclosure, executed by the complainant and her husband to the Gulf Coast Life Insurance Company, covering 54 acres of land, 50 acres of which were owned by the complainant and 4 acres by her husband, as a cloud on the complain ant’s title. The ground upon which the hill seeks relief is that the mortgage was' given to secure the debt of the husband, and that the complainant, within the contemplation of the statute, was…