Citizens State Bank of Ripley v. McKown

Woods, President:

A creditors’ suit was instituted to subject the real estate of C. H. McKown, deceased, to the payment of his indebtedness. The bill alleges, inter alia, that a $5,000.00 mortgage executed almost six months after the death of C. H. McKown, by his sole devisee, David W. McKown, to the Federal Land Bank Company, was void and inoperative against the debts and claims of the general creditors, and asks that the debts and claims of the general creditors of said C. H. McKown take priority over the said mortgage, and that the real estate be sold for payment of decedent’s debts.

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