Box v. Early

The question here involved requires a consideration of the equitable principle of subrogation and its proper application to the facts of this particular case. On March 17, 193.0, the appellant Y. M. Box, purchased a tract of land in Alcorn county from one J. W. Coleman, for which he paid $100 in cash and executed a promissory note in the sum of $2,350, secured by a deed of trust on the land, due December 17, 1930, both of which instruments were also signed by the appellant Mrs. Y. M. Box, and were to secure the payment of the balance of the purchase price. This note was payable to J. W.…