Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Lemmons

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice Mendel L. Smith.

On the 23d day of April, 1926, the respondent, Mrs. Mayme Lemmons, individually and as guardian of her two minor children, to secure a loan for $5,000.00, executed and delivered to the appellant a mortgage of a valuable tract of land consisting of 250 acres, lying about three miles west of the town of Gaffney, and fronting a distance of about one-half mile on the paved state highway designated as No. 11.

Upon default, the appellant brought this action on the 1st day of May, 1929, to foreclose the said…