Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Hoskins

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees —

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Clark ■circuit court denying appellant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a mortgage lien on a certain tract ■of land in Montgomery county, containing 33,247 acres. The facts and circumstances out of which the controversy arose, briefly stated, are:

A. B. Hampton, a resident of Clark county, died intestate the owner of a boundary of land located partly in Clark county and partly in Montgomery county,, containing 515.738 acres. In a suit in the Clark circuit, court to settle the estate, an order was entered…