Thompson v. Menefee

This is a bill in equity to foreclose a mortgage executed April 20, 1919, by A. Burpo Menefee and wife to the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, a body corporate, on real estate in Marengo county, Ala., aggregating 1,777.58 acres, to secure a loan of $35,000. The bill was filed by W. A. Menefee, father of A. Burpo Menefee, against B. Aden Thompson, individually, and as trustee, Mattie J. Selby, W. S. Little, and Y. K. Lewis, as trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of W. S. Little, a bankrupt.

The bill alleges before the maturity of the mortgage debt, the mortgage and the debt secured…