Fenner v. Robertson

Bill by purchasers at trustee’s sale.

J. D. Ruffin conveyed certain real estate in Memphis, tc John Johnson, by deed, in trust to secure a debt of $5,000 to Fenner, Bennett & Bowman. Ruffin ha.d at the time an action of ejectment pending against certain parties in adverse possession, claiming under a tax title. This action he afterwards prosecuted to judgment in his favor, but the cause was removed to this court. About the time Johnson, the trustee, was proceeding to sell under the deed of trust, when Ruffin filed a bill praying a perpetual injunction, upon the ground, principally, that his…