McCann v. Letcher

Ckpe'f Justice Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court. — Judge Breclt did not sit in tiiis case.

On the 29th day of October, 1841, James H. Letcher being much embarrassed by debts, and desirous, as a means of relief, to sell a valuable tract of land which belonged to his wife by devise from her father, and having made a contract for the sale, at the price of about about $14,000, upon an agreement with his wife, that the slaves, also received from her father’s estate, should be secured to her and her children, executed a deed of trust, conveying in trust to R.P. Letcher, a large number of…