Legal Opinion

Highland v. Ice

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided January 19, 1915PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from Circuit Court, Wetzel County. Bill by Cecil B. Highland, receiver, against Emma M. Ice and others. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

Robinson, PRESIDENT:

This appeal is from a decree foreclosing a mortgage, ordering a sale of the property for the payment of the liens found to be existing against the same. Though the mortgage is in form a deed, it is concededly shown, by a contemporaneous writing between the parties, to have been made for the purpose of securing a debt.

*514Emma M. Ice, who held the legal title to the property before it was mortgaged, complains that the decree takes her property for a -debt of her husband, for which she is not now liable. In another particular, hereinafter to be adverted to, Lory P. Ice also…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Whitten v. Bank of FincastleSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Lusher v. SparksWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1961
  2. Caldwell v. . RobinsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1920
  3. Fanti v. WelshWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1968
  4. Brand v. LowtherWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1981
  5. Dumas v. . MorrisonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1918

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