Cook v. Benton

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

This litigation was commenced on March 6, 1942, by bill of complaint filed in the Circuit Court, in Equity, of Perry County, by Margaret H. Benton and Henry W. Hudson against T. E. Cook. The bill sought specific performance of a contract to convey lands, or, in the alternative, to have a deed conveying the lands involved from Mrs. Benton to Cook, and a contract executed contemporaneously therewith declared a mortgage, and to redeem. It was alleged that the complainant Henry W. Hudson had purchased all of the right, title and interest of complainant Margaret H. Benton in…