Rogers v. Adams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Graham. The bill in this case was filed on the 80th June, 1875, by Jesse L. Adams, against Zachariah Eogers and his wife, Mrs; Jane A. Eogers ; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a house and lot in Tuskegee.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. N. S. Graham. The bill in this case was filed on the 80th June, 1875, by Jesse L. Adams, against Zachariah Eogers and his wife, Mrs; Jane A. Eogers ; and sought to foreclose a mortgage on a house and lot in Tuskegee. The mortgage, which was made an exhibit to the bill, was dated the 13th September, 1866; purported to be given to secure the payment of a promissory note for $879.22, of even date with the mortgage, which was signed by said Eogers and wife, and payable to said Adams, or order, on the 1st April next after date ; was…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebville, J.
The title of the house and lot here in controversy was originally in the husband of the appellant, one Zachariah Bogers, having been conveyed directly to him by deed. The wife, Jane A. Bogers, claims a secret équity in the property, which is based upon the alleged fact, that it was paid for with money belonging to her statutory separate estate, and that the husband wrongfully took the title in his own name.
The husband and wife both executed a mortgage upon it, on September 13,1866, to the appellee, Adams, upon a present consideration, which, on the same day, was acknowledged before W. G.…
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