Cowles v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court at Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. N. W. Cocee. The appellants in this case filed their bill, on the 9th April, 1858, against W. C. Moore and wife, seeking to subject to the payment of a promissory note, executed to them by said Moore and wife, Mrs. Moore’s separate estate in certain slaves, whose names, ages, <&c., were specified in the bill.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court at Montgomery. Heard before the Hon. N. W. Cocee. The appellants in this case filed their bill, on the 9th April, 1858, against W. C. Moore and wife, seeking to subject to the payment of a promissory note, executed to them by said Moore and wife, Mrs. Moore’s separate estate in certain slaves, whose names, ages, <&c., were specified in the bill. The defendants consented of record, on the day the bill was filed, that a decree might be entered up against them, for the amount due on the note; and a decree was accordingly rendered, on that day, ordering Mrs. Moore’s…
1Opinion of the CourtA. J. Walker, C. J.
Cowles & Ledyard, W. C. Bibb, and Lewis Owen, severally obtained decrees, subjecting slaves, in which Mrs. Moore had a separate estate, to the payment of their respective debts, owing to them by Moore and wife. On the day appointed for the sale of the slaves under those three several decrees, an agreement in writing was executed by the complainants in the decrees and Andrews. In that agreement it was recited, that the slaves were all advertised for sale on that day; that Andrews claimed them, by virtue of mortgages prior in date to the decrees, and that the slaves would bring more, if sold…
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