Jones v. Lamensdorf

The appellant, Hattie Thornton Jones, was formerly Hattie Thornton, the wife of Sam Thornton, and the other appellants, Susis Bass, Velma Johnson, Abbie Sanders, Mattie Phillips, Clayton Thornton, and Robert Thornton, are the children of Hattie and Sam Thornton. Sam Thornton died leaving certain personal property, and a tract of land consisting of eighty acres which had been occupied by Thornton and his family as a homestead and which was incumbered by a deed of trust in favor of the Federal Land Bank.

In 1930 the appellants applied to the appellee, M. Lamensdorf, for a loan giving the land as…