Wooten v. Farmers' & Merchants' Bank

Appellees brought suit against appellants in the Poinsett Chancery Court to foreclose a deed of trust executed by appellants to appellees upon the SEi/|., NW%, section 26, township 11 north, range 7 east, and other lands in said county, to secure a large indebtedness.

Appellants interposed the defense that the deed of trust was invalid as to the dower interest of Mattie L. Wooten in.all of the lands, on the alleged ground that she did not sign or acknowledge the instrument, and invalid as to the interest of both in the forty-acre tract particularly described above, on the alleged ground that…