Armstrong v. Stovall
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the northern district chancery court at Car-rollton; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. Contended the decision of the vice-chancellor was erroneous, and to sustain his position cited and commented on 7 Ves. Ch. R. 470; 10 Mass. 276 ; 3 Page, 154; 6 Johns. Ch. Ill; 2 Cow. 147; 13 S. & M. 338; 1 Johns.
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On appeal from the northern district chancery court at Car-rollton; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts of the case. Contended the decision of the vice-chancellor was erroneous, and to sustain his position cited and commented on 7 Ves. Ch. R. 470; 10 Mass. 276 ; 3 Page, 154; 6 Johns. Ch. Ill; 2 Cow. 147; 13 S. & M. 338; 1 Johns. Ch. 478 ; 4 lb. 536; 13 S. & M. 348; lb. 631; 3 lb. 560; 1 lb. 66; 7 Leigh, 88 ; 5 Munf. 305; 3 Johns. C. 371; 18 lb. 515; 1 lb. 574; 7 S. & M. 64; lb. 68; lb. 77. filed no brief in the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
The appellee filed his bill in the district chancery court at Carrollton, stating that in February, 1846, he was the owner of three slaves, which he then sold on a credit to Mary Jenkins, wife of Edmund Jenkins, took her notes with another as surety for the purchase-money, and, as a part of the same transaction, and at the same time, a deed in trust was executed by the parties, with the written consent of the husband of Mary Jenkins subjoined thereto, appointing a trustee to sell the slaves for the payment of the purchase-money, if it should not be paid at maturity, and containing a…
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