Ruffin v. Johnson

This is an injunction bill to restrain the sale of a lot of land conveyed. by the complainant to the defendant Johnson in trust, to secure a debt due to defendants Fenner, Bennett and Bowman. The deed of trust bears date the 4th December, 1867, and was executed to secure a note of that date for five thousand dollars, due sixty days from date; and the bill alleges that said deed provided that, in case said note was not paid at maturity, the defendant Johnson, the trustee, was authorized to sell the property after advertising said sale for thirty days in one of the daily papers published in…