Burns v. Hill
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Jackson Superior Court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge Jackson, August Term, 1855. / David M. Burns filed his bill, alleging that, about the year 1821 he loaned to Lewis Pyron $950 and took a mortgage on two negroes, Violet and Tobe; that this money was borrowed to pay off' the .debts of Pyron, and secure a homo for his family; that, subsequently, hearing that there was some difficulty about the title of Pyron to the slaves,.he went to Pyron and inquired of him…
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In Equity, in Jackson Superior Court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge Jackson, August Term, 1855. / David M. Burns filed his bill, alleging that, about the year 1821 he loaned to Lewis Pyron $950 and took a mortgage on two negroes, Violet and Tobe; that this money was borrowed to pay off' the .debts of Pyron, and secure a homo for his family; that, subsequently, hearing that there was some difficulty about the title of Pyron to the slaves,.he went to Pyron and inquired of him and his family, consisting of his wife and children, (all of the latter being of an age to understand the import of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] There were two classes of persons concerned in the making of the contract, as it is alleged by the plaintiff in error. Birst, there were the infant children of Lewis Pyron. Secondly, the adults, consisting of Pyron, his son-in-law, A. L. Hill, and his daughter, Sarah Pyron.
The charges in the bill are those of fraud in the transaction set forth, shared by all these persons, and of user and enjoyment by them, of the money paid to Pyron by General Burns, for the land.
*24Let us first consider the interests of the infants.
Did their conduct…
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