Thompson v. Candor

This bill was filed for the cancellation of a deed.

Willits and Thompson were proprietors of the town of Aledo, and, for the purpose of the establishment of an institution of learning, to be called the “Mercer Collegiate Institute,” proposed to donate the tract of land in controversy, and a large sum of money. On Willits and Thompson’s addition to the town the land was designated as “Mercer Collegiate Institute.” The institution ivas to be under the control and management of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and the deed was executed to the Mercer Collegiate Institute on the 13th of…