Hearst v. Proffit

delivered the opinion of the Court.-

There is no bill in this record, hut we infer from the averments of the answer and from the recitals of the decree that the object of the bill was to foreclose a trust deed made by defendant to secure the payment of certain counsel fees. There is no proof embodied in the record, not even the trust deed itself. At the April term, 1904, the chancellor pronounced a decree in favor of J. H. Hearst, executor, for $369, in favor of W. G. Colson for $369, and in favor of R. G. McKee for $392.50, against defendant, James Proffit, and the decree further recited that…