Lindsey v. Hamlet

BROWN, Justice.

The appellants, to state the substance of the bill’s averments, allege that they are the owners of the lands described in the bill, consisting of 245 acres situated on the west side of the Tallapoosa river in Tallapoosa county, Ala.; that on the 16th day of December, 1931, they executed to the defendant T. J. Hamlet a deed absolute in form to said lands to secure the payment of an indebtedness of $439.25, then and there contracted to procure money to pay a past-due installment on a mortgage held by the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans and prevent a foreclosure of said mortgage;…