Work v. Harper
Court of Appeals of Mississippi
ON appeal from the superior chancery court; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. Stephen Barry mortgaged a negro boy to George Work on the first of February/1845! .Work filed his bill in the superior chancery court against Harper and Crockett, alleging that they obtained a judgment against Stephen Barry, and had an execution levied on the negro boy mortgaged to Work; and which prays for an injunction to restrain the sale of the negro under the execution, as well as for a…
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ON appeal from the superior chancery court; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. Stephen Barry mortgaged a negro boy to George Work on the first of February/1845! .Work filed his bill in the superior chancery court against Harper and Crockett, alleging that they obtained a judgment against Stephen Barry, and had an execution levied on the negro boy mortgaged to Work; and which prays for an injunction to restrain the sale of the negro under the execution, as well as for a foreclosure of the mortgage to Work and a sale of the negro, to satisfy the mortgage debt and other claims. cited and commented…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
*518The appellant filed his bill in the superior court of chancery, for the purpose of foreclosing a mortgage executed to him by Stephen Barry, of Scott county, on the 1st of February, 1845, to secure him in the payment of the sum of $400, and enjoining the appellees, Harper and Crockett, from selling the slave embraced in the mortgage, under an execution emanating on a judgment against the said Berry.
The facts presented by the original bill are these : The complainant, on the first of February, 1845, lent Barry the sum of $400, and took his note, with a mortgage on a certain slave, Isaac, to…
2Cited by5 opinions
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