Millowners Mutual Life Insurance v. Goff

The defendant S. C. Goff is the owner of approximately 720 acres of land situated in Ringgold County. On April 2, 1923, he and his wife, Abbie E. Goff, executed unto the Central Trust Company their promissory note in the principal sum of $60,000, payable April 1, 1928, and, to secure the payment of the same, executed unto said bank a mortgage upon the aforesaid real estate, which is the mortgage sought by the plaintiff to be foreclosed in this action. On April 5, 1923, said mortgage was filed for record in the recorder’s office of Ringgold County, properly indexed, and the same was recorded,…