Beverly v. Perkins

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion oe the court :

In May, 1860, James W. Desmukes, as administrator of George Evans, sold to Ms mother, Elizabeth Desmukes, a male slave, Travis, aged sixty years, for the price of $300, for which she gave her note to Jordan Perkins. She was then a widow, old and helpless, living on a small tract of thirty-eight acres of land, her widowed and destitute daughter, Mary Beverly, with several infant children, living with and taking care of her mother, and signing the note also as surety.

Perkins having afterwards obtained a judgment by default for the amount of the…