Slaughter v. State ex rel. Mitchell

— The material facts in this case, as they appear by the special findings of the circuit court, are that, on the 15th day of March, 1882, Francis M. Jackson borrowed of the auditor of Hancock county the sum of three hundred dollars of the school funds of the State, and executed his note therefor. On the same day he and his wife executed a mortgage upon the land in controversy to secure the payment of the note, which mortgage was duly recorded. The land was subsequently conveyed, until William R. Blakely became the owner of the same, and while such owner, on the 26th day of March, 1885, he…