Grissom v. Hill

In August, 1852, Ezra Hill filed a bill on the chan eery side of the Ouachita Circuit Court, against Arthur W. Simmons and others, alleging, in substance, that on the 8th of November, 1848, the complainant being seized in fee of a certain lot of ground, situated in the city of Camden, he, and his wife, by deed of that date, conveyed the same to Arthur W. Simmons, Berry Beard, Thomas W. Bruce, Levi Keeee and John L. Wells, as trustees, for the use and benefit of the Methodist Protestant Church, and their sue-cessors in office, for life. That tbe object of complainant, m making said conveyance,…