Davis v. American & Foreign Christian Union

Stephen Griffith, in his lifetime, was seized of the lands involved in this litigation, which he sold and conveyed to Ellis Davis and Yerney A. Pierce, and they, in payment for the same, executed and delivered to Griffith their five promissory notes for the sum of $5600, and to secure the payment thereof they gave a mortgage on the premises. Afterwards, Pierce conveyed his interest in the lands to Davis. It also appears that Griffith sold and transferred one of the notes, for $1000, to the American and Foreign Christian Union, and another note of $1000 he assigned to the Church Extension…