White v. Manigan

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

This is a contest between claimants under a deed of trust executed by Manigan and wife, and the general creditors of Manigan, who is dead. A notary public of Shelby county, Tenn., went to New Orleans for the purpose of having Manigan and wife execute the deed of trust in question, and while there took their acknowledgments to it because Manigan, who was sick, refused to acknowledge it before a New Orleans notary. The certificate of acknowledgment is regular in every respect and lays the venue in Shelby county, Tenn. It appears, however, by parol proof that…