Pinkard v. Ingersol
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of error to the Court of Chancery for the fourteenth district. The case made by the bill is this: About the first of August, 1836, the complainant, Pinkard, sold to the defendant, Ingersol, and one Underwood, twenty-eight slaves, for which the purchasers executed their notes at one, two and three years’ date.
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Writ of error to the Court of Chancery for the fourteenth district. The case made by the bill is this: About the first of August, 1836, the complainant, Pinkard, sold to the defendant, Ingersol, and one Underwood, twenty-eight slaves, for which the purchasers executed their notes at one, two and three years’ date. The notes were not paid at maturity, and on the one first due, Underwood was sued in Georgia, and all the amount collected except $2362. On the 10th of August, 1839, Ingersol executed a deed of trust by which he conveyed certain tracts of land, several lots in Girard and…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
1. The equities of the several parties to this cause will be best ascertained by learning what were the rights of each growing out of the several deeds of trust, and how those which previously existed were thereby controlled. In doing this it will be unnecessary to advert to the point made, that the deeds to McDougald and Watson cannot be regarded as registered, in consequence of there being no proof beyond the acknowledgment of the grantor taken by the deputy clerk. That question was settled by the decision of Kemp v. Buckey, 7 Ala. Rep. 138, in the same way as here decided by the chancellor.
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Elmes v. SutherlandSupreme Court of Alabama · 1845
- Kemp v. PorterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1844
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