Straughan v. Bennett

The tract of land in Ouachita County, containing 160 acres, which is the subject-matter . of the present litigation, was originally owned by Beauregard McGe'hee, a colored man, who received a patent from the United States and who occupied the land as a home and cultivated it as a farm.

Appellees assert title to the land under a conveyance from McGehee, and appellants claim title under a mortgage or deed of trust, alleged to have been executed by McGehee and wife in the year 1910, and under a foreclosure deed pursuant to the powers contained in the said deed of trust.

A firm of merchants doing…