O'Neal v. Judsonia State Bank
| Decision Date | 23 February 1914 |
| Citation | 164 S.W. 295,111 Ark. 589 |
| Parties | O'NEAL v. JUDSONIA STATE BANK |
| Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from White Chancery Court; John E. Martineau, Chancellor affirmed.
STATEMENT BY THE COURT.
Appellants filed their bill in equity setting up that W. B. O'Neal and G. M. O'Neal owned an undivided two-thirds interest in certain lands in White County, Arkansas, therein described, and an undivided three-fourths interest in certain other lands; that Dona O'Neal was the wife of E. E O'Neal. That there were of record in said county mortgages upon said lands, or part of them, purporting to have been executed by E. E. O'Neal and his wife, Dona O'Neal, W. B. O'Neal and his wife, Grace O'Neal and G. M. O'Neal; one to C. M. Erganbright, as trustee for the Judsonia State Bank, recorded on mortgage record 31, page 168, and the other to J. N. Rachels, as trustee, for said bank, of record in mortgage record 33, page 104; the one to secure a purported debt of $ 6,000, the other to secure a purported debt of $ 8,000.
Complainants alleged that neither said W. B. O'Neal nor G. M O'Neal signed or executed said pretended mortgages, and they alleged that Dona O'Neal, who was entitled to a one-third interest for life in the lands left by her husband, E. E. O'Neal, deceased, never, at any time, signed or executed said pretended mortgages.
It was further alleged that on April 20, 1910, there was filed in the office of the circuit clerk of White County, Arkansas, a mortgage, purporting to have been signed by said E. E. O'Neal, W. B. O'Neal and G. M. O'Neal, to the Judsonia State Bank, relating to a sawmill outfit, three mules, and a log wagon and some other property, as to the description of which there is no controversy, for a pretended debt of $ 6,000, which complainants say was never signed, or executed, by said W. B. O'Neal or G. M. O'Neal.
It was further alleged that on May 3, 1911, there was filed in the office of the said circuit clerk of White County, Arkansas, another mortgage purporting to have been executed by said E. E. O'Neal, W. B. O'Neal and G. M. O'Neal on April 14, 1911, to the Judsonia State Bank, conveying certain personal property, as to the description of which there is no controversy, to secure a debt of $ 8,000, but complainants stated that said W. B. O'Neal and G. M. O'Neal never, at any time, executed said instrument. And Dona O'Neal denied that the said chattel mortgage had ever been executed by her deceased husband, and claimed a third interest in the share of her husband in said chattels.
And complainants prayed that the defendants be required to bring said pretended mortgages into court, and that they be cancelled and set aside and the title held by said parties quieted.
Copies of the said mortgages were attached as exhibits to the complaint.
The answer denied all the material allegations of the complaint, and the defendants also filed a cross complaint asking that the mortgages referred to in the complaint be foreclosed against plaintiffs.
Decree affirmed.
Morris M. & Louis M. Cohn, for appellants.
Counsel discuss the evidence and contend that appellants neither signed nor acknowledged the instruments in question.
A partner's mortgage of real estate, though in the firm name, and for a firm debt, only binds the interest of the partner. 61 Ga. 676; 65 Ga. 71; 72 Ga. 830; 76 Ala. 593; 57 Ind. 532; 4 La.Ann. 56; 70 Ark. 211.
Without authority under seal one partner can not bind another by deed. 5 Har. (Del.) 291; 4 Mo. 417; 19 Pa. 235; 21 Tenn. 534; 20 Ark. 92; 1 Ark. 206; 1 Mart. (N. S.) 290; 47 La.Ann. 346, 16 So. 852; 42 Mass. 575; 35 Am. Dec. 374; 33 Tex. 16.
S. Brundidge, for appellee.
1. The evidence is not sufficient to impeach the certificate of acknowledgment of the instruments in question, nothing in the record tending to prove any fraud on the part of the officer taking the same, or any collusion. His certificate must prevail. It can not be overthrown by the testimony of one who denies his signature to the instruments in question. 52 N.E. 921; 100 Ill. 385; 17 N.E. 782.
2. The right of one partner to execute a chattel mortgage on property belonging to the firm is settled in this State. 83 Ark. 117.
3. The evidence is all to the effect that the real estate contained in the deed was bought with partnership funds for the common use of the firm, and was so held with no special ownership or title in the individual members of the firm, or any one of them.
In a court of equity all the property of a partnership is treated as personal estate. 1 Lindley on Partnerships, § 410; 56 Ark. 170; 135 U.S. 282; 110 U.S. 94; 6 Am. & Eng. Ann. Cases, 34.
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