Sandlin v. Dowdell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Tallapoosa. Heard before the Hou. Richard B. Kelly. The bill in this case was originally filed by Ellen C. Shapard, administratrix of the estate of W. B. Shapard, deceased, against the appellants, R. C. Sandlin and his wife, Nelie Sandlin, and the Bank of Opelika, for the purpose of having corrected a misdescription of property conveyed in a mortgage from Sandlin and wife to the Bank of Opelika, and by it transferred to W. B. Shapard, and of…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Tallapoosa. Heard before the Hou. Richard B. Kelly. The bill in this case was originally filed by Ellen C. Shapard, administratrix of the estate of W. B. Shapard, deceased, against the appellants, R. C. Sandlin and his wife, Nelie Sandlin, and the Bank of Opelika, for the purpose of having corrected a misdescription of property conveyed in a mortgage from Sandlin and wife to the Bank of Opelika, and by it transferred to W. B. Shapard, and of having the mortgage, as so corrected, foreclosed. The complainant died pending the suit, and the cause was revived in…
1Opinion of the CourtDenson, J.
The appeal in this case was taken from a decree of the chancery court of Tallapoosa county, foreclosing a mortgage on real estate. It was admitted that the real estate, upon which the mortgage *521was given and foreclosed, was, a!t the date of the execution of the mortgage, owned and occupied by the mortgagor, B. C. Sandlin, as his homestead, and that his wife, Nelie Sandlin, resided with him.
The only question, presented for consideration in the brief of counsel for the appellants, relates to the certificate of acknowledgment attached to the mortgage.
The acknowledgment purports to have been taken…
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