Murff v. Ratcliff

Plaintiff obtained a judgment against one Ben J. Jamison, who at the time owned certain real property constituting his homestead, but on which Clem V. Ratcliff, defendant herein, held a special conventional mortgage containing a homestead exemption executed by Jamison and, his wife. Ratcliff liermitted. ten years to elapse from the date of his mortgage without reinscribing same, but he did reinscribe the mortgage something-over a year thereafter. Shortly before the expiration of the ten-year period, however, Ratcliff obtained order of seizure and sale of Jamison’s property under the mortgage.…