Hughes v. Graves

Opinion of the Court.

PALMER, being indebted to Hughes in the sum of $346 27, to secure the payment thereof, executed a mortgage upon two slaves by the names of Fanny and Esther; which mortgage was, in due time and in the proper office, admitted to record. Palmer afterwards sold Fanny to Walker, and Esther to Graves; and having failed to pay the debt for which they were mortgaged, Hughes filed his bill against Palmer, Walker and Graves, praying for a foreclosure of the mortgage, and a sale of the slaves, in satisfaction of his debt. The bill was taken for confessed, at the rules in the…