Smith's Ex'r v. Benton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the holder of an invalid mortgage was not a volunteer, and thus, entitled to be equitably subrogated to the priority position of the lender whose loan it had paid
• equitable subrogation is not “allowed so as to do injury to the rights of others”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).