Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. v. Smith

This case is here on appeal from a final decree entered in behalf of the plaintiff below by the Circuit Court of Polk County, Florida. The prayer of the bill of complaint was for the cancellation of- record of a certain real estate mortgage on orange' grove property in Polk County. The bill of complaint asserted the payment of the mortgage and an agreement on the part of the mortgagee to cancel same of record. The answer of the defendant denied the material allegations of the bill of complaint and asserted that the mortgage sought to be cancelled of record was a subsisting lien, unpaid and…