Shearouse v. Wolf

Wolf brought an action of ejectment against Rawls, who died pending the action, and Shearouse, his administrator, was made a party in his stead. The plea of the defendant set up that Rawls conveyed the land in dispute to Mrs. N. A. Lee, to secure a note for $100, given for the purchase-money of a horse, and that the consideration of the note had entirely faded, the horse having been seized and sold on an execution against Mrs. Lee, based on a judgment in existence at the date the horse was sold by her; and that Wolf bought the note and took a transfer of the title to the land after the…