Supreme Court of Missouri April 15, 1891 (Cobb v. Day)

Thomas, J.

This is a bill in equity to have a deed absolute on its face declared a mortgage and to redeem. 'The deed covers five and a half acres of land lying within half a mile of Kansas City. The bill alleges that on the twenty-ninth day of September, 1881, defendant loaned Emma Cobb, the wife of her coplaintiff, the sum of $330, which sum she and her husband .