Jones v. White

SHANNON, Chief Judge.

The appellants were defendants in the court below and appeal from the decree of the chancellor holding that the instrument in controversy was intended as a mortgage and not as a warranty deed.

Reuben J. White, plaintiff below, filed his amended complaint against the defendants and another party seeking to have the chancellor construe a deed of conveyance from the plaintiff to the defendants on January 9, 1959, to be a mortgage lien upon the real property therein described, alleging that it was given by him as security for an obligation paid by the defendants. The plaintiff…