Halbert v. Turner

Benjamin Moore, an aged and ignorant negro, who resided in the city of Lebanon, in St. Clair county, was the owner and in possession of lots 6 and 7 in ^Thurston’s addition to said city, and there was a two-room frame dwelling house on lot 6. On July 12, 1898, he applied to the appellant, Young Turner, another negro, for a loan of $31.50, and proposed to secure it by a mortgage on the lots. Appellant said that he would not make a loan or take a mortgage, but if Moore would deed him the lots he would give him an option or privilege to pay the $31.50 at any time during Moore’s lifetime, but if…