Hord v. Hord

Judge Breck

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1840, Thornton Hord and Nancy his wife, executed a mortgage to Francis T. Hord, upon an undivided moiety in about one hundred acres of land, and fourteen slaves. The mortgage purports to be made to secure the payment of a debt for about six hundred dollars, due by Thornton to F. T. Hord, and also to indemnify the latter for any money he might advance for said Thornton and wife. The deed was in due time acknowledged and recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the Mason County Court.

In 1841, George Cox recovered a judgment agaiust Thornton Hord, for…