Burns v. Lenoir

This suit was begun by the institution of an action at law to recover the possession of land, and was removed into the chancery court under the statute at the instance of appellant who was defendant in ejectment. Afterwards appellant as the actor filed appropriate pleading in the nature of a bill in equity. She claimed that the deceased husband of one appellee and father of the others advanced the money for appellant to pay the purchase price of the land, but took the title in his own name; that upon her remonstrance, she and he returned the deed to the grantor and caused him to execute…