Lee v. Fellowes & Co.

Judge Graham

delivered the opinion of the Court.

W. & C. Fellowes, Whitlock & Kaye, Longstreth & Bouldin, and Summers & Simmons, judgment creditors of Crist & Simmons, being unable to coerce their several demands by execution, each exhibited a bill in chancery to set aside, as fraudulent, a mortgage made by Jonathan Simmons, one of the firm of Crist & Simmons, to Lee, on land and negroes, and a mortgage to JohnS. Simmons on three slaves. If the transactions are not decreed to be fraudulent, they then seek to reduce the amount secured, by cleansing the transactions of usury. In the progress of…