McNeal v. Patterson
Decision Date | 28 April 1938 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 262. |
Citation | 236 Ala. 50,180 So. 773 |
Parties | MCNEAL v. PATTERSON ET AL. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; E. M. Creel, Judge.
Bill to foreclose a mortgage by Nettie Mae McNeal, a minor, by Maud McLure Kelly, as guardian of said minor, against Elijah Patterson and others, as Trustees of Friendship Baptist Church in Hooper City. From a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainant appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Basil A. Wood, of Birmingham, for appellant.
Harrison Kendrick and O. B. Cornelius, both of Birmingham, for appellees.
The bill is filed by a minor through and by her guardian against the defendants "as Trustees of Friendship Baptist Church in Hooper City," to foreclose a mortgage executed by the defendants to a former guardian to secure an indebtedness which the bill alleges, including interest and taxes assessed against said property, "totals to-wit, $500.00 as of to-wit, September 27, 1937."
The bill avers:
Said Exhibit A appears to have been executed on December 11, 1926 and acknowledged by the respondents on December 7, 1926, as "officers and trustees of the Friendship Church * * * being duly authorized, by a vote of the majority of all the members of said church at a called meeting of the members of said church held on the 6th day of December, 1926, after notice of said meeting was served on all of the members of said church, to execute this mortgage to secure this loan, warranted free from all incumbrance and against any adverse claims."
The bill was filed October 5, 1937.
The defendants filed two demurrers to the bill, the first taking the points:
The other assigned as grounds:
The demurrers were sustained, and the appeal is from that decree.
The last note, according to the recitals in the mortgage, matured September 15, 1928. The demurrer, first above mentioned, was therefore not well taken. The first ground was, in effect, the general demurrer for want of equity. Alabama Lime & Stone Co. v. Adams, 222 Ala. 538, 133 So. 580.
The second ground was without merit, as it appears that the bill was filed well within the twenty years of the maturity of the last note. Hendley et al. v. First National Bank of Huntsville, 234 Ala. 535, 176 So. 348.
The defendants, as the averments of the bill show, are sued as trustees of the named church, and it...
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