Hannaford v. Dowdle
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Conway Circuit Court in Chancery. William L. Moose, Judge. statement by ti-ie court. This is an action by R. A. Dowdle and others as heirs at law of Juliette E. Hannaford, in the Conway . Circuit Court in chaneery against J. T. Hannaford and Allen-West Commission Company for the purpose of having a deed from said J. T. Hannaford and Juliette E. Hannaford to Allen-West Commission Company, and a like deed from Allen-West Commission Company to J. T. Hannaford,…
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Appeal from Conway Circuit Court in Chancery. William L. Moose, Judge. statement by ti-ie court. This is an action by R. A. Dowdle and others as heirs at law of Juliette E. Hannaford, in the Conway . Circuit Court in chaneery against J. T. Hannaford and Allen-West Commission Company for the purpose of having a deed from said J. T. Hannaford and Juliette E. Hannaford to Allen-West Commission Company, and a like deed from Allen-West Commission Company to J. T. Hannaford, declared a mortgage and subject to redemption, and for an accounting between Hannaford and Allen-West Commission Company as…
1Opinion of the Court
McCuudoch, J.,
(after stating the facts.) We need not pause to consider the question whether the parties to the first conveyance intended the same to be an absolute conveyance, or a security for debt. It is conceded by appellants that the consideration named in the deed was a past-due indebtedness from Hanna-ford to the Commission Company, that the reconveyance was agreed upon before the execution of the first deed, and that both deeds were prepared at the same time, and were practically a part of the same transaction. Whatever the intention of the parties may have been, the only effect of the…
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