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249 Ala. 441

31 So.2d 598

Wall v. Drasheff

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 31, 1947

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1947-07-31

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1953

4 state decisions

Relies on Smith v. Smith · West v. Hendrix · Douglass v. Moody

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Decided 1947-07-31

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*442 SIMPSON," Justice.

¶1 Appeal from interlocutory order sustaining demurrer to amended bill seeking to declare a deed a mortgage.

¶2 [1J To convert a conveyance absolute in its terms into a mortgage, the intention and understanding of all parties to that effect must concur. The fact that the grantor intended the conveyance as a mortgage is not sufficient. The grantee must also have so intended and considered it and accepted the instrument as such. Martin v. Martin, 123 Ala. 191, 26 So. 525; West v. Hendrix, 28 Ala. 226; Sewell v. Price’s Adm’r, 32 Ala. 97; Mitchell v. Wellman, 80 Ala. 16; Mobile Building & Loan Ass’n v. Robertson, 65 Ala. 382; Douglass v. Moody, 80 Ala. 61.

¶3 To invoke the aid of equity to this end “there must be specific allegation that security for the debt was understood and intended by both parties to the transaction.” Hogan v. Moore, 221 Ala. 355, 358, 128 So. 790, 792; Smith v. Smith, 153 Ala. 504, 45 So. 168.

¶4 The bill as amended was notably deficient in these allegational requisites and the trial court must be affirmed in sustaining the demurrer thereto.

¶5 Affirmed.

GARDNER, C. J., and BROWN and LIVINGSTON, JJ., concur.
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