Beckwith v. McAlister

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice W. EL Townsend.

At and prior to the times hereinafter mentioned the defendant Mrs. Pearle M. Beckwith was the owner of two tracts of land in Abbeville County described in the complaint. On April 3, 1913, she gave her bond to her stepfather, the late W. E. Stelts, who made his home in her family, secured by a first mortgage on one of her tracts of land, for $2,091.00; and on March 23, 1916, another bond for $1,018.00, secured by a first mortgage on her other tract. Both bonds bore interest at 7 per cent, per annum. On the…