Young v. Wood & Abbot

Uhiet Justice Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Sometime previous to the year 1844, Milton Young sold to L. W. Kincheloe a tract of land in Nelson county for the sum of $16,000. On the 24th of August 1844, about eight thousand dollars of the purchase money having been paid, Young then residing in Union county, made a deed conveying the land to Kincheloe, for the recited consideration of $16,000 “paid and secured to be paid,” and at the same time Kincheloe executed to him a mortgage conveying the same land, and a house and lot in the county of Muhlenburg, and a negro woman slave, to…