Thomas v. Lanier

At the suit of the plaintiff on. a writing obligatory for $200 00, dated 26th November, 1856, and payable on the 25th December, 1857, the slave of the defendant was attached. The defendant appeared, and pleaded, in substance, as follows:

That he executed the writing obligatory for the residue of the purchase money, agreed to be paid for a tract of land; that the plaintiff, at the same time, executed to him a bond for title, in which it was stipulated that, upon payment of the writing obligatory, the plaintiff should make, or cause to be made, to the defendant, a deed to the land; and that the…