Jefferson Standard Life Ins. v. Hill

SIBLEY, District Judge.

That a Georgia security deed may be enforced in a federal court of equity as an equitable mortgage is well settled. The new equity rules do not require exhibits, and the general practice in mortgage foreclosures is not to exhibit an oftentimes lengthy and complicated mortgage. The petition is therefore held.not defective for failure to exhibit the mortgage.

That attorney’s fees, under the Georgia statute regulating promises to pay them, may be enforced, although the suit brought for the debt is in equity rather than at law, was decided in Harris v. Powers, 129 Ga. 74, 58…