Barrett v. Sims

Myrick, J.:

The allegations of the complaint are, in substance, that on the fourteenth of January, 1879, the defendant, J. Y. Sims, executed a mortgage to the defendant Clarke, to secure the payment of eight thousand dollars, and that the mortgaged premises consist of a tract of land known as Swamp Land Survey 836; that on the sixth of May, 1880, the defendant J. Y. Sims executed to the defendant Beckman a deed of said premises, except a strip twenty-five rods wide on the west side thereof, and on the same day filed a declaration of homestead on the said twenty-five-rod strip; that said deed…