Dobbs v. Lilley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

In 1896 George H. Dobbs was the owner of the real estate in controversy, and in March of that year he mortgaged it to Wilder S. Metcalf to secure a loan of money. In January, 1898, Dobbs was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for the term of his natural life. No appeal was taken, the judgment was executed without clemency, and Dobbs was kept in confinement in the penitentiary until January 81, 1905, when he died. He left as his heirs his son, Charles M. Dobbs, aged eighteen, and his…