Wiles v. . Harshaw

The bill charges, that the plaintiff borrowed from the defendant fifty dollars, and, as a security for its payment, he mortgaged to him a negro girl named Ailsey. The mortgage deed was drawn by Harshaw, and read over to the plaintiff by him, and the consideration mentioned as read was fifty dollars,¡^and the bill avers, that the plaintiff never did read over the deed before executing it, being old and infirm, and that be never did receive but fifty dollars from the defendant. It charges, that, after it was recorded, he was induced to examine it, and found that, instead of fifty dollars, the…