Armstrong v. Armstrong

A negro family, brothers and sisters, were the joint owners by inheritance of one hundred and sixty acres of land, which, at the death of the ancestor, was burdened by a mortgage to secure a debt of five hundred and fourteen dollars ($514) due a firm of merchants. The mortgage debt was past due, and foreclosure proceedings were threatened, and on February 17, 1914, ap-pellees conveyed the land to Monroe Armstrong*, their elder brother.

Shortly after this conveyance Monroe Armstrong borrowed from appellant P. C. Grayson money with which he paid off: and satisfied the mortgage then existing,…