Adcock v. Merchants & Manufacturers Bank

We are to determine on this appeal (1) whether appellant, Adcock, holds title as trustee for appellee Bank, or is himself the owner, of the eighty acres of land here involved, and (2) whether the proof is of such nature and weight as to justify the finding on that question by the Chancellor, and (3) whether appellant, Rut-land, is an innocent purchaser of the land.

The conveyances attacked by the bill of the Bank in this cause, in the order of execution, are as follows:

November 19, 1932, a deed from the Bank to Adcock;

February 28, 1941, a deed from Adcock to Rutland;

March 1, 1941, an oil, gas…