Brown v. Crane

Warner, Chief Justice.

The complainant alleges in his bill that, on the 16th day of March, 1864, he purchased from one Maulden a certain described tract, of land in the county of Towns, and paid him therefor the sum of $500 00, and took Maulden’s bond to make him a fee simple title to the land so soon as Maulden got a title to the land from Wyley, whose bond for title Maul-den held. . The complainant went into possession of the land, planted a portion of it in corn and went to the State of Tennessee, leaving a negro woman to cultivate it; that in the month of December, 1864, the defendant,…