Hall v. Woods

The of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

At the syndics’ sale of the property of the insolvent Ananias Eunhar, made on the 22d December, 1841, John Holmes purchased slaves for the aggregate sum of $12,110, payable one-tenth of the purchase money cash, and the balance on a credit of one, two and three years, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, after the maturity of the respective instalments. Six days after the purchase he filed a petition in the Court of Probates’ alleging that he had purchased those slaves as under-tutor of the minor children of the insolvent, and as an…