Mexican Crude Rubber Co. v. Ackley

Clara Ackley, complainant below, joined by her husband filed her bill of complaint seeking to have cancelled a certain deed from herself and husband to the defendant and to have reinstated a certain lease by said deed transferred and assigned to defendant, and for an accounting. Defendant demurred to the bill for want of equity. The demurrer was overruled and defendant appealed.

The bill alleges that John B. Thornhill conveyed certain lands to S. K. Ackley and took back a purchase-money mortgage; that S. K. Ackley leased the said lands to the defendant for a term of years and thereafter…