Ex Parte Johnson

The main action is for the foreclosure of a mortgage given by Bradford Keel, S.A. Keel, and W.H. Keel, to the Bank of Western Carolina, to secure the payment of their note for $15,000, dated January 21, 1920. The mortgage covered a tract of 400 acres which had belonged to C.A. Keel, the grandfather of Bradford Keel and the father of the other two mortgagors; it was recorded February 21, 1920, and later was assigned to the plaintiff Mary A. Swygert. The mortgaged premises had been purchased by the three mortgagors at a private sale by the executor of C.A. Keel for partition, and the mortgage…