Opinion

Pollak v. Millsap

  • 219 Ala. 273
  • 122 So. 16
  • 65 A.L.R. 110
  • 1928 Ala. LEXIS 391
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Nov 15, 1928
Status
Published
Author
Anderson
On the bench
Anderson, Bouddin, Bouldin, Foster, Gardner, Saxre, Thomas
Cited by
28 cases

holding that transaction involving loan of money se cured by deed is enforceable as mortgage, not a conditional sale

How later courts described this case

  • holding that transaction involving loan of money se cured by deed is enforceable as mortgage, not a conditional sale

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ANDERSON, O. J.

(dissenting): I think that, while the note, as set out in the bill, carries a debt from the complainants to Brown, the further provision, as incorporated therein, manifested a clear intention that the debt was to be canceled and satisfied by the-delivery of the deed, which was held by the bank in

escrow.

The deed was so delivered, and Brown clearly has no right to pursue the complainants for the debt, or any part thereof. This being the case,1 the transaction was a conditional sale, pure and simple, and the title vested in Brown, or his assignee, when the deed was delivered.

THOMAS, J., concurs in the foregoing dissént.

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