Taylor v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Covington County; A. B. Foster, Judge. Bill by Mrs. Oda Taylor against J. F. Taylor and the First National Bank to redeem from foreclosure sale. From a ■ decree overruling demurrers to bill, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Covington County; A. B. Foster, Judge. Bill by Mrs. Oda Taylor against J. F. Taylor and the First National Bank to redeem from foreclosure sale. From a ■ decree overruling demurrers to bill, respondents appeal. Bill filed by appellee against appellants, J. F. Taylor and the First National Bank of Elba, seeking the exercise of the equity of redemption as to a certain mortgage executed by complainant, Oda Taylor, and respondent J. F. Taylor, her husband, to one Foreman on certain ^ands situated in Covington and Coffee counties, which said mortgage by proper transfer…
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, X
By this bill complainant seeks to exercise the equity of redemption as to certain described lands, upon which she and her husband had executed a mortgage; the property and debt being that of the husband. Complainant alleges that the husband fails or refuses to himself pay the indebtedness and to exercise the equity of redemption; and her right to maintain this suit is based upon this averment in connection with her interest as an inchoate right of dower in the lands, together with tlie fact that the same constituted the homestead.
The overwhelming weight of authority sustains the…
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