Lucado v. Tutwiler's adm'x

The controversy in this case arises between execution creditors and the personal representative of a mortgagee, and grew out of the following state of facts:

The appellees’ intestate, W. C. Tutwiler, residing in the county of Fluvanna, being the owner of a canal freight boat known as “ Cora Lee,” sold the Bame to *40W. P. Cox, of the city of Richmond, for the sum of $975.

On the 31st of January 1871, Cox executed a paper-writing, in the nature of a mortgage, on said boat, to seeure the payment of the purchase money, in which it was stipulated that one-third of the purchase money should be paid “…