Pitts v. Ennis

'Wheelek, J.

The plaintiff, suing for the use of his wife, Eliza P. Pitts, filed his petition alleging that the defendants’ intestate, Geo. W. Reynolds, in his life time executed and delivered to the said Eliza a writing in the terms following viz.:

“ Hbbmoso, October 18, 1842.

“ On the first of December next, I promise to furnish Eliza P, Pitts a good negro fellow to work for her, until I pay her a thousand *(424)dollar note of mine that she holds against me, or return her the negro woman Charlotte again.” . * * *

The petition proceeds with the averments that this writing “ was made to secure…