Glenn v. Cauthen

Thomas H. Glenn and Wooten Huff filed an equitable petition in Oglethorpe superior court, against J. A. Beazley of Oglethorpe county, and J. A. Cauthen of Elbert county. The petition alleged in substance, the following: Wooten Huff owned in fee simple a tract of land in Oglethorpe county. In 1899 he borrowed of the defendant Cauthen eighty dollars, and “in order to secure said debt executed to said J. A. Cauthen a deed to said tract of land.” No bond for reconveyance was executed by Cauthen to Huff “ at the time the said Huff executed the aforesaid warranty deed to the said J. A. Cauthen.”…