67 Ala. 446 | Ala. | 1880
— The bill is filed by the appellant, a mortgagee of personal property, before the maturity of the mortgage debt, and while the mortgagor was entitled to pos
The ground of interference is the prevention of injury to the future or present rights of the mortgagee, for which the law does not furnish an appropriate and adequate remedy, The injury must be shown, and it must be shown that the mortgagor, or those claiming under him, are about doing, or have done, some act which is violative of the rights of the mortgagee, and beyond his right as mortgagor in and entitled to possession. If it is conceded to the appellant, that a removal of the personal property beyond the jurisdiction of the court was apprehended, and was intended and about being made, it was a mere temporary removal, not intended to be continued until the maturity of the debt, and the law day of the mortgage. Nor does it appear there was any increased probability of deterioration in value because of the mere temporary removal, or that in consequence, the rights of the mortgagee were placed in serious jeopardy. It is the jeopardy of the rights of the mortgagee by the removal of the property beyond the reach of his legal remedies when he is entitled to resort to them, that forms a ground of equitable interference. As it is in cases at law, a ground for an attachment at the suit of a creditor, that his debtor is removing his property beyond the State, without the jurisdiction of its courts, depriving him of the legal remedies he may here pursue. But it is not intended that the mortgagor, or the debtor, shall be hindered and denied the legitimate use of the property, in subservience of his convenience or pleasure. A mere temporary removal of the property, for use and convenience, not intended to affect the rights of the mortgagee, or to embarrass, or to impair them, accompanied by an honest intention to return it to the State, before the legal rights .of the mortgagee will attach, will not justify a court of equity in intervening by injunction, or by the issue of the statutory
Affirmed.