Poindexter v. Rawlings

Tins is a bill to collect balance of purchase money for land, and to enforce the vendor’s equity.

In 1883 the complainant, Martha A. Poindexter, sold and conveyed a tract of land in Sevier County to the defendants. A. P. Rawlings and his wife, Mary S. Rawlings, for the consideration of $2,500; onet-half thereof being paid in cash, and the other half being covered by three notes of A. P. Rawlings, maturing in 1885, 1886, and 1887, respectively. Upon the maturity and payment of the first note, in 1885, A. P. Rawlings returned the original deed to the vendor, and she, at his request, executed…