Laycock v. Bird

The plaintiff sued her brother, Thomson J. Bird, io set aside a sale of land, slaves, &c., made by their mother, shortly before her death, to the defendant.

*174The alleged grounds are lesion, and that the pretended sale was a donation in disguise.

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rendered against her claim, in pursuance of the verdict of a jury. It would seem from the printed argument upon which the cause was submitted by her counsel, that the only point relied upon for reversing this judgment is embraced in a bill of exceptions to the District Judge’s charge to the jury. The charge…