Nutt v. Sturgis

Appellants brought this action as the heirs at law of Josiah and Mary Nutt, alleging that a warranty deed executed on March 17, 1924, by Josiah Nutt and Mary Nutt, his wife, conveying 105 acres of land in Hot Spring Comity to one S. B. Horne, was in reality an equitable mortgage. They alleged fraud in the procurement of said deed, and prayed that the original deed, together with the deeds of subsequent transferees, be cancelled as clouds on appellants’ title. They further alleged that since 1927, appellee, C. F. Sturgis had at various times caused the removal from said land of several…