Woodfolk v. Marley

The bill in this cause alleges that in 1867 the ancestor of complainant executed and delivered a deed to the defendant, Marley, conveying several tracts of land lying in Lauderdale and Obion Counties, in this State, aggregating 11,000 or 12,-000 acres, and that at the same time Marley executed a secret defeasance to the grantor, in which he admitted that he held the title in the interest of and for his vendor, subject to some small compensation which Marley was to have for managing and selling these lands. The bill further alleges that in 1881 the original grantor died the equitable owner of…