Hawkins v. Snellings

BROWN, Justice.

It is well settled law that a “mortgagor in possession may without previous tender file bill to protect and enforce equity of redemption” and that a “mortgagee cannot, pending mortgagor’s bill to protect equity of redemption, impair mortgagor’s right to redeem.” Ezzell v. First Nat. Bank of Russellville, 218 Ala. 462, 119 So. 2; Boyd v. Dent, 216 Ala. 171, 113 So. 11; Carroll v. Henderson, 191 Ala. 248, 68 So. 1; Thompson v. Atchley, 201 Ala. 398, 78 So. 196, 79 So. 478; Fair v. Cummings, 197 Ala. 131, 72 So. 389; Burns v. Mortgage Bond Co. of New York, 199 Ala. 77, 73 So. 987.

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