Robb v. Hoffman

This case was tried on an agreed statement of facts substantially as follows: On August 9, 1911, R. S. L. Crockett and his wife, Martha, executed to J. C. Honey a mortgage on the 124 acres of land in controversy, to secure an indebtedness to Honey. The land was Crockett’s homestead, and he thereafter died, leaving a widow and eight minor children. At the November term of the chancery court of 1915, Honey foreclosed his mortgage, and Crockett’s widow, who at that time was Martha 'Crockett Finley, became the purchaser at the foreclosure sale, paying therefor $646.42. She borrowed the money to…