Compton v. Johnson

On June 28, 1907, Andrew Compton, appellee, filed his bill in the circuit court of Lee county against Squire E. Johnson and Minor M. Avery, appellants, seeking to compel them to execute to him a deed to an eighty-acre tract of land in that county, to have certain deeds canceled and set aside as clouds upon the title to that land, and for an accounting. Upon a hearing on the report of the master to whom the cause was referred a decree was entered granting substantially the relief prayed for by the bill, and to review that decree this app'eal is prosecuted.

It appears from the record that on…