McKinney v. Dillard Coffin Company

Two actions were commenced in the chancery court of Crittenden County, one by appellees to foreclose certain mortgages given them by appellants upon lands in said county, the other by appellants attacking the validity of the mortgages. The issue joined by the pleadings in each case was whether appellants owned a mortgageable interest in the real estate. Appellants alleged that they owned a contingent remainder-therein, not subject to mortgage, and appellees asserted that their interest as remaindermen vested with the life estate of their mother, Mrs. Mary B. McKinney, daughter of Mrs. Martha…