Hughie v. Hammett

Lumpkin; P. J.

This was an equitable petition brought by-Mrs. Hughie against Hammett, to restrain him from evicting her as his tenant from a house and lot in the town of Jonesboro, and for the cancelation, as a cloud upon her title, of a certain mortgage and deed executed by herself, the latter of which purported to convey to Hammett the title to the property in dispute. Her contentions were, that this mortgage and deed were executed to secure a debt due to Hammett by her husband; that she had signed the deed under duress, and that the debt in question was infected with usury. On the other…