Telford v. Broyles

The facts of this case, as we have gathered them from this voluminous record, need not be given in detail in order to a determination of the questions presented, nor is. it practicable, under the pressure that usually attends the closing labors of a term, that we should elaborate our views upon the various propositions of law pressed in the argument. A general statement of the facts, with our conclusions as to the equities of the parties, must suffice, and even this necessary statement extend this' opinion to great length. ~-

In the spring of 1869, about the 1st of April of that year, after a…