Wesley v. Thomas
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery. The object of the bill filed by the appellees, was to obtain the Surrender and cancelling of a mortgage of some negroes* executed on the 29th of January 1814, by //. Pumplirty, the former husband of the female appellee, to Wesley, one óf the appellants. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion delivered by this court.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery. The object of the bill filed by the appellees, was to obtain the Surrender and cancelling of a mortgage of some negroes* executed on the 29th of January 1814, by //. Pumplirty, the former husband of the female appellee, to Wesley, one óf the appellants. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion delivered by this court. Commissions issued to take testimony, and a number of depositions were returned) and the cause having been submitted for decision, Kilty* Chancellor, decreed, that the mortgage should be cancelled, &c. The defendant appealed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was- delivered by
Dorsey, J.
The appellees, John R. Thomas, and CatMrine his wife, died their bill in the court of chancery against Henry Wesley, add others, alleging that Aquila Pumphreyi the former husband of Catharine, the female complainant; being indebted to several persons to the' amount of one hundred dollars, on judgments obtained against him on warrants* applied to the defendant, Wesley, to join as a security in superseding the said judgments* and that Wesley agreed to do So on condition that Pumphrey would give him an indemnity.- The bill then proceeds to…
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