Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Estes

THOMAS, Justice.

Phases of this matter are reported as Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Estes, 228 Ala. 582, 155 So. 79; Estes v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 232 Ala. 656, 169 So. 316.

In the last appeal, it waá held, among other things, that in a bill by mortgagee’s transferee, seeking to have an equitable mortgage declared, signatures to which were not acknowledged, the mortgagor was entitled to $2000.00 exemption out of proceeds of sale of homestead, as against the contention that mortgagor was first required'to pay, or offer to pay, indebtedness due transferee, as a condition precedent to the…