Jarrell v. Farmers Nat. Bank of Opelika

FOSTER, Justice.

The question on this appeal is whether a court of equity properly exercised its power to correct an error in the description of land in some of the proceedings in which the land was sold by order of the probate court to pay debts of the decedent. The administration had been removed into equity before the effort was made to correct the error which occurred before the removal was ordered.

The tract of land in question consisted of 637 acres. It had been mortgaged to> the Federal Land Bank, in which mortgage it was correctly described. The mortgage had been transferred to appellee…