Apperson & Co. v. W. E. & C. L. Moore

English, Ch. J.:

The material facts of this case are as follows:

Win. McLain, a tenant on the Higgins plantation in Phillips county, being indebted to Apperson & Co., merchants of Memphis, in about the sum of one thousand dollars for money and supplies previously furnished, and desiring to secure to them that sum, and to procure from them further advances, on the 1st of March, 1872, executed a deed of trust, by which he conveyed to James D. Quigley, as trustee, two mules, one gray mare, six head of cattle, one wagon, farming implements, gear, etc., then on the Higgins place, worked and…