Moore v. Anthony-Jones Lumber Co.

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is an appeal by Mary Alice Moore from an adverse decree of the Calhoun County Chancery Court denying her petition to quiet title against Anthony-Jones Lumber Company to 20 acres of Calhoun County land.

Mrs. Moore originally held title to the land through a deed obtained from her father in 1921. In 1931 she mortgaged the land to the Calhoun County Bank to secure a loan in the principal amount of $193. Upon default in the payment of the loan, the bank foreclosed the mortgage on the 20 acre tract and purchased it at a foreclosure sale for the amount of the indebtedness…