Streshley v. Powell

Judge Chehsbaw

delivered the opinion of the Court.

To enjoin a judgment recovered by the appellant against the appellee in the Jefferson Circuit Court for the sum of $700, besides interest and costs, the appel-lee filed his bill in the Louisville Chancery Court. An injunction was granted, and, upon trial, it was perpetuated.

The bill alleges an entire failure of the consideration of the note upon which the judgment was recovered. It appears that, on the 9th of January, 1850, the appellant sold to the appellee a negro boy for the sum of $700, payable sixty days thereafter; that a note was…