Lee State Bank v. McElheny

This is a suit to reform a mortgage. Defendant Clarence J. McElheny owed plaintiff bank $25,400, evidenced by his notes, collaterally secured by drain orders of questioned validity. Some of his creditors threatened suit by attachment and the bank asked to be secured by mortgage. April 26, 1921, defendants, “Ha McElheny, individually, Clarence J. McElheny, individually, and Clarence J. McElheny and Ila McElheny, husband and wife,” executed and delivered to plaintiff bank a mortgage for $25,400, covering several descriptions of real estate, one being:

“A strip of land nineteen (19) feet in width…