Case Name: Rubie C. Connor, Claude E. Connor, Jefferson D. Young, Thomas S. Kyle, Margaret J. Pickard, Ocklawaha River Farms Company, The Munroe & Chambliss National Bank of Ocala, Noble W. Harrison and Gus A. Waters, Appellants, v. Nena Kyle Elliott as Executrix of the Will of James M. Elliott, deceased, Appellee
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1917-01-31
Citations: 73 Fla. 217
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rubie C. Connor, Claude E. Connor, Jefferson D. Young, Thomas S. Kyle, Margaret J. Pickard, Ocklawaha River Farms Company, The Munroe & Chambliss National Bank of Ocala, Noble W. Harrison and Gus A. Waters, Appellants, v. Nena Kyle Elliott as Executrix of the Will of James M. Elliott, deceased, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 73
Pages: 217–227

Head Matter:
Rubie C. Connor, Claude E. Connor, Jefferson D. Young, Thomas S. Kyle, Margaret J. Pickard, Ocklawaha River Farms Company, The Munroe & Chambliss National Bank of Ocala, Noble W. Harrison and Gus A. Waters, Appellants, v. Nena Kyle Elliott as Executrix of the Will of James M. Elliott, deceased, Appellee.
Opinion Filed January 31, 1917.
Petition for Rehearing Denied March 31, 1917,
Decided upon the authority of Ocklawaha River Farms Company v. Jefferson D. Young et al., present-term.
On Petition for Rehearing.
i. Where a married woman executed jointly with her husband a mortgage to another person, upon her separate property consisting of lands, to secure a debt of the husband and such Mortgage was in the form of a deed absolute and expressed a certain consideration in dollars and the womap. afterwards instituted a suit in equity against the mortga¿ee and her husband to declare the deed to be a mortgage and for an accounting as to the husband’s indebtedness, the decree rendered in such suit is binding upon the husband both as to the character of the instrument and the amount of indebtedness found to be due, where the court rendering the decree had jurisdiction of the subject-matter and the person of the defendants; and in another and subsequent proceeding by the mortgagee or his executrix to foreclose the mortgage will be considered as res adj-udicata as to the husband.
2. In such a case all the subsequent purchasers of the land with notice, actual or constructive, of the mortgage will be likewise bound by the decree adjudicating the amount of the indebtedness secured by the mortgage. ' -
Appeal from Circuit Court of Marion County; W. S. Bullock, Judge.
Rehearing denied. -
H. M. Hampton and Hooker & Martin, for Appellants ;
Hampton & Hampton, for Appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The appellee filed her bill to foreclose a mortgage given by Rubie C. Connor and her husband to James M. Elliott in 1908. Separate demurrers were interposed to the bill by the several defendants, which demurrers were overruled! From the order an appeal was taken. The questions presented have been discussed in the case of Ocklawaha River Farms Company v. Jefferson D. Young, et al., decided this day.
The order of the Chancellor overruling the demurrer is affirmed upon the authority of that case.
Browne, C. J., and Taylor, Shackleford, Whitfield and Ellis, JJ., concur.