Thompson v. Patton

Opinion of the Court,

bx Judge Mills,

THIS case presents the question, whether the sale or transfer of a slave in contest, was absolute, or whether was intended as a mortgage. The bill of sale, as it is termed, is absolute upon its face, and contains no expression from which a'condition can'be implied. The a^eSes’ that at the time he borrowed of the defendant in chancery, two hundred and forty-nine dollars, for forty-nine of which he gave his note, on which the defendant has got a judgment enjoined by the bill, aiJd for the remaining two hundred he pledged the slave in question, and gave the…