Tiernan v. Martin

The object of this suit is the recovery of the sum of $5,200, which, it is alleged, the defendants assumed to pay to the plaintiffs, under the following circumstances. Moses Hall, being largely indebted to both parties, the defendants agreed with him, on the 17th of September, 1836, that, if he would execute to them a deed of trust on fifteen negroes, and convey to them a tract of land which was then encumbered with a deed of trust in favor of the plaintiffs, for which land a release from the trust was to be made by the plaintiffs, they would assume to pay to Tiernan, Cuddy & Co., the sum of…