Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1833 (Den Ex Dem Skinner v. Cox)

Ruffin, Chief-Justice.

After stating the case proceeded as follows:

The deed from

Halsey

to the lessors of the plaintiff is, upon its face, a security. It recites several debts to the bargainees, and others for which they were jointly or respectively bound as sureties for the

bargainor;

and that “he was desirous of securing the said

L. S.

and J.

H. H.

against loss by reason thereof.