Gilchrist Fordney Co. v. Ezelle

B. F. Ezelle in his lifetime owned a certain tract of land in Smith county, a part thereof being in cultivation and a part being timber land. Some time prior to his death, he incumbered this land to a bank at Forest, Miss. After his death the deed of trust became due and payable. There were two years of crop failure or shortage, and his wife and children were unable to pay the deed of trust off from the proceeds of the crops. The deceased left a wife and nine children. The bank transferred the deed of trust to another, who proceeded to foreclose at a trustee’s sale, at which sale the widow…