Hoover v. Pennington

Mathew Lockhart died in Tangipohoa in 1921. An inventory was taken of his prop-' erty which was in community with Lucy Lockhart, his surviving spouse, who qualified as the natural tutrix of Gordon, Selby, and Beida Lockhart, minors at that time.

In 1919, about two years before his death, Mathew Lockhart executed a mortgage on three small tracts of land in favor of Simpson Sharp for $3,000, represented by a promissory note for that amount. There was no consideration for this note, which was returned .by Sharp to Mathew Lockhart a short time before his death, and which was found among his papers.