Saylor v. Crooker

*625The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiffs brought this action to restrain". the defendants from selling certain property claimed and occupied by plaintiffs but the title to which was in the name of' Edwin R. Crooker, a judgment debtor of Thomas H. Murray. Plaintiffs alleged that the deed from them which had conveyed the property to Crooker was in reality a mortgage to secure the payment of J. W. Saylor’s share of the purchase price of an agency contract for the sale of “family rights” and “agency contracts” pertaining to a patented crude oil burner owned by Crooker,…