Rollow v. Taylor

Opinion by

LYONS, C.

Plaintiff sued defendant for the purpose of declaring a trust in certain real .estate which defendant held by virtue of a sheriff’s deed executed pursuant to a judgment in foreclosure proceedings covering the lands in controversy.

It was alleged and proved that the plaintiff was an ignorant negro fréedman unable to read or write; that he had b.een the owner of the land in controversy; that on January 11, 1915; there were two incumbrances in the form of real estate mortgages on said land: (1) A first lien held by Mary E. Baker to secure an indebtedness of $600 with an…