Henderson v. Hill

By this ejectment bill the complainant, Henderson, seeks to recover from (he defendant, Hill, a tract of land near the city of Memphis, containing about twenty acres. Both parties claim under the same title; the complainant, as a purchaser of the land at execution sale, and the defendant, by conveyance from the execution debtor. The chancellor, on final hearing, dismissed the bill, and complainant appealed.

On the 3d of October, 1856, the land in controversy was conveyed to Elizabeth M. Currin, her heirs and assigns forever, by deed, to have and to hold, to her, her heirs and assigns forever,…