Faris v. Simpson

TEMPLETON, Associate Justice.

Crawford R. Simpson died intestate in 1881. His wife and seven minor children survived him, the appellees, Clifton and Willie Simpson, being the youngest of the children. There was a community estate consisting principally of lots in the city of Greenville, of the value, at that time, of about $4500. The estate owed no debts. Mrs. Simpson at once qualified as survivor. In 1890 she borrowed $7000 from the appellant Paris, and secured the debt by a mortgage on two lots belonging to the estate. The money was borrowed for the purpose of erecting a business house on…