Cliett v. First Nat. Bank

The appellants, S. A. Cliett, and his wife, Careta Lofton Cliett, resident citizens of Clay county, Mississippi, filed a bill in the Chancery Court of that county for an injunction against foreclosure of a deed of trust, and to establish a homestead right in the land embraced in the deed of trust. While the bill was originally filed under the moratorium act of 1934, Laws 1934, c. 247, by agreement of all parties and the court, the issue was tried under chapter 287 of the Laws of 1936, that chapter having become operative at the time of the trial. The appellants were formerly owners in fee of…