Hill v. Ford

Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered tlie opinion of the court:

The Tennessee National .Bank of Memphis filed this bill to have the title to. lot No. 256, in Memphis, known as the Telegraph Building, divested out of ¥m G. Ford and Mary S. Ford, his wife, and vested in the bank. The facts on vhich the questions to- he determined arise, so far as it is necessary to state them, are- as follows:

The Tennessee National Bank of Memphis was organized at Memphis in 1865, under the general banking laws, with a capital of $100,000, with Geo. B. Butler as its president. On the 7th of September, 1866, the board of…