Hoffman v. Jordan

STAKELY, Justice.

On December 17, 1936, Eli M. Jordan and his wife H. P. Jordan executed a mortgage to W. B. Hoffman (appellant) to secure the sum of $82.50 on certain real estate in Geneva County, Alabama. Eli M. Jordan died intestate on February 19, 1939. Thereafter on April 28, 1941, a deed was executed by all of the heirs at law of Eli M. Jordan to W. B. Hoffman purporting to be in lieu of foreclosure of the aforesaid mortgage.

The bill in the case at bar was filed by the living children of Eli M. Jordan and the children of one deceased child, the widow having died, being all the next of…