Hebert v. Doussan

Amaranthe Landry, widow of J. B. Hebert, sold on the 29th January, 1842, to I. F. and F. P. Woods, a small plantation, and thirteen slaves, situated on the Mississippi river, for the sum of $28,000, payable as follows: $7000 in a note at.short date, $3900, divided into three notes of $1000, $1960 and $1000, payable at one year thereafter to her order, and $17,040, the balance, in an assumpsit of that sum, due by the vendor to her minor children, whose tutrix she was, payable as they should respectively become of age. All the instalments to bear an annual interest of ten per cent.; the amount…