Pennington v. Purcell

The appellant, Ben T. Pennington, tiled his bill against the appellee, Mrs. E. M. Purcell, alleging that by virtue of a certain deed of trust executed January 12, 1920, by Joe B. Evans in his favor, he was invested with a superior, paramount, and first lien on a certain twenty-nine-acre tract of land; in Sunflower county, Mississippi, and prayed that any and all claims asserted by Mrs. Purcell be decreed to be subordinate and inferior to the lien of his deed of trust, and that same be foreclosed by decree of the chancery court.

Hitherto the appellee filed a demurrer to the original bill, which…