Green v. Maddox

This was an action instituted by Hayden Maddox, the plaintiff below, seeking, in effect, to establish his title to an undivided one-half interest in a house and lot situated in the city of Paragould, the legal title to which was in the defendants, and to obtain an accounting of the rents and profits issuing therefrom. On November 17, 1888, the commissioner of the Greene Chancery Court, by virtue and in pursuance of a decree rendered in a proceeding pending in that court, sold the land in controversy to one Henry Maddox, who executed his note for the purchase money thereof. That sale was duly…