Reynolds v. Crook
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Benton. Heard before the Hon. “Wade Keyes. This bill was filed by James M. Crook, James D. Grant, James A. McCampbell, and George C. “Whatley, against Walker Reynolds, Samuel P. Hudson and others; and sought to restrain the sale of certain slaves, on which an execution in favor of Reynolds against Hudson had been levied by the sheriff, and which Hudson had previously conveyed by deed of trust to one L. W. Cannon, to indemnify the…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Benton. Heard before the Hon. “Wade Keyes. This bill was filed by James M. Crook, James D. Grant, James A. McCampbell, and George C. “Whatley, against Walker Reynolds, Samuel P. Hudson and others; and sought to restrain the sale of certain slaves, on which an execution in favor of Reynolds against Hudson had been levied by the sheriff, and which Hudson had previously conveyed by deed of trust to one L. W. Cannon, to indemnify the complainants against liability as his sureties on a guardian’s bond; also, to have the deed of trust u established and made…
1Opinion of the Court
BICE, 0. J.
— From the bill and exhibits it appears, that in February, 1854, Samuel P. Hudson was appointed guardian of five children of a decedent, all of whom were under fourteen years of age; that he entered into bond, with-the complainants — four in number — ’as his sureties, in the penal sum of twelve thousand dollar’s, conditioned for the performance of .his duties as such guardian; that on the 18th day of April, 1855, he “ became embarrassed in his circumstances, and, being desirous of indemnifying and saving complainants from any loss as his sureties as aforesaid, executed for that…
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