McGriff v. Porter
Supreme Court of Florida
The njypel]ant filed his bill in Franklin Circuit'Court, against the appellees and the Sheriff of Franklin County, as ox-officio administrator of the estate of Archibald R. Ridley, deceased, to foreclose as a mortgage a certain instrument, which is set out at length in the opinion of the Court delivered in this case.
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The njypel]ant filed his bill in Franklin Circuit'Court, against the appellees and the Sheriff of Franklin County, as ox-officio administrator of the estate of Archibald R. Ridley, deceased, to foreclose as a mortgage a certain instrument, which is set out at length in the opinion of the Court delivered in this case. It appears from the record that Archibald B. Ridley, in his life time, executed a note, payable on the first day of January, 1836, to Richard Dawson, since deceased, of whose estate said appellant is administrator, for eleven hundred dollars, and at the same time executed and…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, J.:
This is a suit for foreclosure of mortgage, which was instituted by the appellant, who was complainant in the Circuit Court, and the decision of the case turns upon the character of the instrument set up in the bill, and a copy of which is exhibited therewith, whether it is a mortgage as is. asserted by the complainant, or a mere naked power as contended for by the respondents.
' The instrument is in the following terms, viz:
“ Alabama, Henry County. To all to whom these pres-t£ ents may come, greeting : Know ye, that I, A. 33. Rid- “ ley, for and in consideration of the sum of…
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