American Mortgage Co. v. Tennille

Lumpkin, Justice.

Tennille executed and delivered to J. K. O. Sherwood a promissory note, and at the same time, in order to secure the same, made and delivered to said Sherwood a deed to certain land. Sherwood transferred the note and conveyed the land to the American Mortgage Company of Scotland, Limited, who sued the note to judgment in the superior court of Quitman county, and an execution issued thereon was levied upon the land described in the aforesaid deed, the mortgage company having previously filed in the clerk’s office a deed purporting to reconvey the land to said Tennille for the…