Duncan v. Dazey

Martin K. Duncan on October 16, 1915, filed his bill for an accounting against J. Ed Dazey in the circuit court of Shelby county. While the suit was pending, after testimony had been taken, on March 26, 1917, the complainant filed an amendment to his bill. The bill as amended alleged, in substance, that Duncan was on September 22, 1903, the owner in fee simple and in possession of 180 acres of land in Shelby county; that the land was encumbered for $4000 and its net value above the encumbrance was $18,500; that for many years he had been intimately acquainted with Dazey, who was engaged in…