Ford v. McGehee

The Chancellor.

The complainants, as the administrators of David Ford, deceased, seek tó enforce the lien or statutory mortgage which the law gives them for the purchase money upon a slave which they sold as the property of their intestate, to one James McGehee, and which subsequently passed into the hands of the defendant Hos-kins. It appears from the testimony that the slave in question was sold as the property of McGehee after he became the purchaser by virtue of a judgment and execution against him, at which sale Malcom D. Haynes became the purchaser, who subsequently sold to the defendant…