Sowell v. Cox

An order of seizure and sale having been obtained by the defendant, Cox, on an act of mortgage importing a confession of judgment, which mortgage was executed by the plaintiffs on certain slaves declared in the act to he the separate and *69paraphernal property of Mrs. Mary M. Carney, one of the obligors, for the purpose of securing the payment of a note of $600, executed by said plaintiffs to the order of the defendant for value received, and which note was paraphed “ Ne varietur” by the notary who passed the act, the present suit was instituted by the said Mary M. Carney, wife of William…