Court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1812

Colcock v. Ferguson

Colcock v. Ferguson
Court of Chancery of South Carolina · Decided February 15, 1812
3 S.C. Eq. 482
Colcock v. Ferguson

Opinion of the Court

-Chancellor Waties delivered the following decree :

The defendant in this case having admitted that the bond and mortgage described in the bill of the complai-against which they pray to be relieved, was given by W. C. Ferguson, the testator of the two first named complainants, when he was under the age of 9.1 years : It is ordered and decreed that the said bond and mortgage be delivered up to the said complainants to be can-' celled, and that there be a perpetual injunction against all proceedings thereon at law. The costs to be paid out of the estate of Thomas Ferguson.

There was no appeal from this decree.

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