Baker v. Harlan

This was an agreed case submitted to the Chancery Court at Columbia, showing the following facts: George Lipscomb directed his attorney, L. D. Myers, to prepare a deed of trust conveying to H. C. Harlan, trustee, a tract of land to secure a number of creditors, and furnished him a list of the creditors to be secured and their debts. The deed was drawn and executed, and acknowledged by Lipscomb on the 15th of February, 1876, and filed for registration on the *506same day. On the next day, the 16th, H. C. Harlan, the trustee, in writing accepted the trust, and it is to-be fairly assumed that this…