Goddard's Heirs v. Urquhart
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a personal action on a notarial instrument of writing, instituted against Thomas Urquhart, and commenced by Wm. F. Goddard a citizen of South-Carolina in 1830, in which he claims five thousand and ten dollars, as the amount acknowledged to have been received by the defendant in said act.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a personal action on a notarial instrument of writing, instituted against Thomas Urquhart, and commenced by Wm. F. Goddard a citizen of South-Carolina in 1830, in which he claims five thousand and ten dollars, as the amount acknowledged to have been received by the defendant in said act. The record and evidence shows, that in the year 1805, one John Almond died, intestate, in the Territory of Orleans, leaving a considerable property, consisting principally in slaves and some land. Thomas Urquhart was appointed the administrator of…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The facts of this case are as follow : John Almond died in the territory of Orleans, in 1805; leaving a daughter who lived in South Carolina, who was at first married to William Goddard, by whom she had a son Thomas F. Goddard; on the death of whose father, his mother married John Paisley. She being the sole heir of Almond, whose estate was administered by the defendant, who early in 1806 sold several slaves, part of the estate, to judge Prevost, and took his note at twelve months for the price. Soon after Paisley came to Louisiana, and the defendant rendered him an account, which was…
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