McEntire v. . McEntire

The case is before us on an appeal from the decree of the Court below, dissolving the injunction previously obtained. The bill alleges, that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, loaned him one hundred dollars, and, to secure the repayment, the latter conveyed to him by way of mortgage a negro woman named Juno, and, if, at the end of the specified time the defendant did not repay the money borrowed, then the plaintiff was to pay the further sum of two hundred dollars by a specified time. This contract was reduced to writing and signed by the parties, and is dated in February, 1848.…