Craig v. Meriwether
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; Bmon 0. Mahoney, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On January 2, 1903, Hunter M. Meriwether and his two brothers, John W. and Gilmer Meriwether, sold and conveyed to J. C. Haw and J. B. Bunn certain lands in Chicot County, Arkansas, for the sum and price of $19,200, which was not paid, but was evidenced by five promissory notes executed by Law and Bunn to said grantors.
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Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; Bmon 0. Mahoney, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. On January 2, 1903, Hunter M. Meriwether and his two brothers, John W. and Gilmer Meriwether, sold and conveyed to J. C. Haw and J. B. Bunn certain lands in Chicot County, Arkansas, for the sum and price of $19,200, which was not paid, but was evidenced by five promissory notes executed by Law and Bunn to said grantors. To secure the payment of these notes, Law and Bunn executed to the Meriwethers a mortgage on said lands. The mortgage provided, among other things, that if default should be made in the…
1Opinion of the Court
McCueloch, J.,
(after stating the facts.) Many questions are ably argued by counsel as to the validity of the tender said to have been made to the Meriwethers to redeem from the foreclosure sale, the right of the mortgagors to assign their statutory right or privilege of redemption after sale, whether it is merely a personal privilege and not assignable, and whether or not the mortgagors were bound by the clause in the mortgage waiving their statutory right of redemption after sale; but the conclusion which we have reached renders it unnecessary for us to discuss these questions. The case is…
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