Green v. Capps

Appellees filed their, bill in chancery, for partition, in the court below. Appellant answered the bill, denying that appellees were seized of any interest in the land therein described, and alleging that the deed, under which they claim title in the ancestor of whom they sue as heirs-at-law, was, in fact, but a mortgage, and that the debt it was given to secure was barred by the Statute of Limitations before the filing of .the bill. The same facts were set up in a cross-bill which •■appellant filed in the case after answering the bill. To this appellees filed an answer denying the…