Piernas v. Blanque's Syndics

The petition states that the plaintiff, being jn need, applied to Blanque, who loaned he/ the sum of one thousand dollars, and she, beina: vvil-ling to secure him by a mortgage of three slaves, w^om she possessed, he availed himself of her necessitous situation, of the influence he posses-1 sed over her, and the confidence which he enjoyed as her brother-in-law, and induced her to exe-cut'e an absolute bill of sale, instead of a mort-grag-t;—that two of the said slaves were then hir- ° ° ed to the wife, now widow of said Blanque, in ¶ , . • , whose possession they have ever since remained;…