Ruby v. Cox & Grayot

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

This action was brought to enforce a mortgage- executed by D. M. Roll to Cox and Grayot on a herd of cattle in Muhlenberg county in 1917. Roll was indebted to the law firm of Cox & Grayot in the sum of $2,500.00 for services, and on June 5, 1917, executed and delivered to the firm a note- for that amount and secured it by a *163mortgage on a herd of more than 50 head of Hereford cattle. Roll was greatly indebted at the time and his creditors were pressing him-. To make his situation more lamentable he was in jail on a felony charge.

Shortly after the…