Carson v. Dwight

The defendants are appellants from a judgment condemning them to pay, in solido, to the plaintiff, the sum of $131 88, with interest, as being the balance due upon the price of a negro woman named Isabella, purchased by one of the defendants, for the sum of $700. The negro woman having been seized and sold to satisfy the second instalment of the price, being $350, brought only $290, which, after paying the costs, was applied to the satisfaction of the debt to the amount of $232 62.

The defendants resist the claim set up by plaintiff; on the ground, that the woman Isabella is entitled to her…