J. R. Watkins Co. v. Farmers Fertilizer Co.

Reid, Chief Justice.

The widow took the equity of redemption in the property subject to the two outstanding security deeds. Code Ann. 1941 Cumulative Supp. § 113-1002; Winn v. Lunsford, 130 Ga. 436, 442 (61 S. E. 9); Smalley v. Bassford, 191 Ga. 642 (2) (13 S. E. 2d, 662); Minchew v. Juniata College, 188 Ga. 517 (2) (4 S. E. 2d, 212). The lien of the judgment, while of record ahead of the second security deed, was nevertheless made by statute inferior to the claim of the widow for year’s support -(Code § 113-1,002). She could redeem the land by paying off the security deeds and hold it free…