Tennessee Supreme Court January 30, 1838 (Wood v. Jones)

Green, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This bill is brought to redeem a negro man slave, mortgaged by the complainant to the defendant, Jones, the 10th of October, 1825, to secure the payment of the sum of four hundred dollars.

Jones sold the negro to Wooland in January, 1830, who in 1832 sold him to Neville, by whom he was, in June, 1832, sold to the defendant, Love.