Hall v. Gordon
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from. Lowndes Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. A. E. Gamble. Ejectment by Mrs. Mary R. Gordon against Mrs. Birdie Shepherd Hall. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, j.
Statutory ejectment, instituted by appellee against appellant to recover premises in the town of Hayneville. If the mortgage executed by Mary R. Gordon and George P. Gordon to W. P. McGaugh was not invalid, because violative of the statute (Code, § 4497), which provides that “the wife shall not, directly or indirectly, become the surety for the husband,” then the title of the appellant, arising from or consefquent upon the foreclosure of that mortgage, should have prevailed in this cause. The burden of proof to avoid a mortgage of the wife’s property, because given to secure the…
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