Glover v. Howell

The action is to recover the penalty provided by section 9023 of the Code 1923, and was tried by the court without a jury on the following agreed statement of facts:

“That on August 31st, 1920, the plaintiff and his wife, A. R. Glover, executed a mortgage in the sum of $2,000.00 conveying real estate situated “in Madison County, Alabama, to A. B. Howell, said mortgage indebtedness being due December 31, 1921; that said mortgage was recorded in the office of the Probate Judge of said county and state in mortgage hook 168, page 61, and was recorded before the maturity of said debt, and the…