Court Opinion

ID: 8516880
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 08:51:48.329198+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:51:20.229054
License: Public Domain

Spiegel, J.
The petition in this case alleges that plaintiff loaned defendant $15,000 for a term of three years, receiving as security a deed in fee simple *319to certain real estate, giving a lease back to ■defendants; that said loan has not been repaid, and that, therefore, he prays a foreclosure and sale of said property, the deed being in fact a mortgage. The defendants demur, because—
•Maxwell & Ramsey for demurrer.
Ben. B. Dale for plaintiff.
1. The petition discloses upon its face a defect of parties.
2. The petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
The demurrer must be sustained upon the first ground. The petition shows that George G. Fleurot is the record owner of the estate in fee simple. As a reformation of the deed and lease is sought, so as to make it a mortgage, a foreclosure of the same without making the grantee's wife a party, would not bar her after her husband’s death, to disavow the decision and ■claim that the transaction was an absolute conveyance to her husband. It follows, therefore, that she is a necessary party to make title under this proceeding.