Bethea v. McCullough

The bill in this cause, filed by the appellee, McCullough, against the appellants, T. B. Methea and J. M. and H. J. Harris, sought a decree requiring said appellants, defendants, to convey to complainant all the right, title, and interest claimed by them in a certain large tract of land in Montgomery county. The theory of the bill is that defendants acquired the legal title to the land with knowledge or notice of the prior equity of complainant under written agreements for the sale of the land to him into which he had entered with William and Fox McCullough, who had taken the land in equal…