Norris v. Norris' Administrator

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

William Norris executed to John Norris a mortgage on some slaves to secure fifteen hundred dollars, recited as having been loaned by the mortgagee to the mortgagor.

To an action of covenant brought on the undertaking to pay, supposed to have been implied by the recital of a loan, the representatives of William Norris, who were sued, pleaded — first, that there was no consideration for the covenant; and secondly, that the only consideration was a corrupt combination to defeat the creditors of the mortgagor, by a feigned lien on his slaves for…