The Arkansas advocate., 1837-01-20


 Between Ann Innes Crttenden, complanant,
 and
 Absalom Fowler, surviving Admr. of Robert
 Crttenden, deceascd, defendant.
 YENHIS day came the complainant by her solicitor
 X the defendant by his attorney, and this eause co ming on for final hearing by consent of parties upon u bill and the cross bill of Chester Ashley and Daniel lt go the answers exhibits and evidence taken by and under a rule of this Couft--and the Court havin heard and considered of the sane. and being fully adVl sed of and concerning the premises the substance of h complanants bill and exhibits appeared to be- tn tt bert Crittenden deceased, the filth day ot August Il ths year of Christ thousand eight hundred and tWen ty-seven made his certain bill of sale mortgage to ont John w. Hunt, of Lexington the State of kentucky and thereby for and in consideration of the Of twt hundred dollars to Il m in hand paid by the said Hunt iiortgaged to the said Hunt certain uegro woman med Coea, which mortgage conditioned that Ii the said Crtenden should pay the said Hunt the sad sun of two hundred dollars before the last day of April in the year of Christ thousand eight hundred and twenty eight with legal interest thereon according te the Kentucky of interest," then the said bill of sale or mortgage be null and void, otherwise to be and reuan i'll u force and effect which said bill oi sale or mortgage duly acknowledged by the said Crttenden on the twenty-th day of July in the year of Christ thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, ct Little Rock in the county of Pulaski and Territory of Arkan sas before Thomas w. Newton, Clerk Of the Circuit Court of said county of Pulaski and further that the said John " Hunt assigned the said bil of sale John J. Crtenden, after the death of the sad Robert Crittenden wit, e twenty day of Febru- sary A. D. 1885, and that the said John j. Critenden afterwards to wit, on the twenty day of Febru- ary in the year last aforesad assigned the said bill of sale or mortgage the said compalnant And further that neither the said Robert Grtenden up the time of his deah nor the said Ben Desha and Absalom Fow- Ter, his administrators, the said Absalom Fowler surviving administrator aforesaid, his death up this time, have paid and satisfied the said o two hundred dollars nor the interest thereon nor any part of ether Therefore that the said mortgage may be toecosed and the said slave sold tor the payment there of And to be relieved is the scope of the eompanant'S bill; Whereto the defendant alleged, That he tae vying administration of the said Robert Grtenden. de- ceased that he is we'll acquainted With the hand Writing of the said Crittenden deceased anu believes the said mortgage be in the hand writing of the said Cren- den, deceased, and generally not denying the facts set forth in said bill; And that he has in his possession administrator aforesaid, certain negro woman named Coela Celia; And that since she has been in his pos session she has brought forth female child Lucy Ann that the said Coea has been duly appraised four huns dred dollars and the said child to hundred and twen ty-fve dolars and therefore praying that the said child may be sold together with it's mother and the fund ar sing therefrom divided according to the appraised value of said mother and child.
 Whereupon the Court here doth order adludge and de cree, that Absalom Fowler, surviving administrator o Robert Crtenden deceased, defendant in tls case dc pay to the said complainant the sum of three hundred and fourteen dollars being the of said debt due the face of said mortgage including interest on the same from the fifth day of August in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and twenty six per cenud per amman, it being the legal rate of interest in the St e of Kentucky before the twentyhrd day of January next and in the event of failure to pay the said sum as aforesaid it is further ordered adudged and decreed that the said slave, to Wit Coela Cela and her increase Lucy Ann be sold to pay said debt and that the said Absalom Fowler, administrator aore- ead be and he is hereby precluded from redeeming said slaves and that all equity of redemption of said slaves be and the hereby forever barred against said Fowler administrator aforesaid, and against any and R other representatives of the said Robert Crittenden deceased and his heirs assigns And it is further dered adjudged and deereed that unless the said debt aud interest be paid before the said twentythrd day of January next tho said slave Coela Gea anc her child Iucy Ann be sold said twenty third day January next at the Court House doorn the City of Lit tie Rock public vendue giving public notice thereof by an advertisement published for at least four weeks previous to said day of sale in newspape published in said City for the payment ofthe said three hundred and fourteen dollars and the interest whei shall then have accrued thereon om the date of this de cree and that Charles T. Berraud be appointed Com missioner to make such sae and that he execute deet to the purchaser the slaves so and that the moneys so arising from such sale shall be divided by the Commissioners into two pars according the appraised value of the said Coela and her child Lucy Ann, forth said answer and hat out of the part thereof responding tho appraised value of the said Coela he shall satisfy tue said complainant the said ofthrce hundred and fourteen doars with the interest thereon accruing from the date of this decree until paid together with the of this suit and the expenses of said sale and that he hold the residue of the moneys arising from such sae ill his hands. be paid the said Tow Ter as assets of the of the Robert Crtenden deceased; And it is further orderelthat this bt continued till the next Term of this Court.
 A true copy from the record. Teste-
 JOHN FIELD, Clerk.
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