Rawls v. Free

This is a suit for damages for the breach of an alleged contract to convey four separate farms which, collectively, comprised the J. S. Ross estate. Ross died in 1920, and was survived by four children, who, as-his heirs at law, mortgaged the lands thus inherited to T. H. Free to secure an indebtedness of $12,000. Default being made in the payment of this indebtedness, a suit was brought to foreclose the mortgage which secured it, and a decree of foreclosure was rendered in October, 1928. Pursuant to this decree, the lands were sold to Free by the commissioner appointed to make the sale,…