Haygood v. Edwards

1. This being a suit upon a note given by the defendant for the purchase-money of land, and there being evidence to authorize the inference that he never acquired possession of the land, and that after the execution of the note sued on and his acceptance of a bond for title to the land from the plaintiff, the plaintiff, without the defendant’s knowledge or consent, conveyed the land to another by an absolute deed of conveyance which was given to secure a debt and which contained no provision that it was made subject to the then-outstanding- bond for title to the defendant, the jury were…