Cooper v. Atlantic Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n

The defendant-appellant in this case, J. Milton Cooper, and ihis then wife, Elaine E. Cooper, on August 5, 1960, signed *229a note in favor of the plaintiff-appellee, Atlantic Federal Savings and Loan Association of Fort Lauderdale, in the amount of $30,000, which was secured by a mortgage on a piece of real property located in Palm Beach County, Florida. Subsequent marital discord resulted in the separation of the Coopers and the payments on the mortgage fell in arrears. Thereafter, on March 19, 1964, a complaint was filed in the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, Florida, in Chancery, to…