Haynes v. Courtney

The plaintiff, who sues as liquidator of the affairs of the Clinton and

Port Hudson Railroad Company, for the benefit of the New Orleans Gas Light Company, instituted the present action against the defendant, as administratrix of the succession of Jamas H. Brown, deceased, and also in her individual capacity to recover a debt of five thousand dollars, and interest thereon, and to enforce a conventional mortgage on a tract of land, and certain slaves, given by herself and said Brown, to secure the payment of the debt at its maturity.

The origin of this debt was the subscription of James H.…