Sampley v. Watson

This is a suit in chancery, in which Mrs. Belinda Sampley, the wife of David J. Sampley, by her next friend, complains, that she and her said, husband sold to Perry Watson, on the 25th day of December, 1863, a certain tract of land, lying in the county of Lowndes, in this State, for the sum of seven thousand dollars. Said land was the statutory separate property of Mrs. Sampley. Four thousand dollars of the purchase-money was paid, at the date of the sale, in negro slaves; and three thousand dollars, being the residue of the purchase-money for said land, was secured by the promissory note of…