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OF consideration C0mpts seIxEfs IS EtacA
or. promised. to pay him $500 per annun'
that in compliance with said contract Com
claimant removed to Holly Springs and
entered upon his duties as Teacher 10 said
Institute. the first of January 1888, and con-
,inued in the employment of Teacher under
said contract during the years 1855 and
1899. ,Eat in The wear 1889 while he was
engaged as Teacher, the Institution, obtained
q Charter incorporating it under the name
Of "ihe University OF Holly Springs. upon
settlement between Complainant and defend
ants for his services, the two years, 1t was
found that thew were indebted TO Compt a
balance of 96O745, some time afer SAID ln'
sii,plion was incorporated. Comp. was told
by the rrns,ees by whom he had been en-
nIoved that transfer OF the Institution had
akin Mace 10 the new Board under the act
of incorporation, that the new Board would
come into possession ofthe lots and buildings
that they had other funds IN donations and
sobscrlpIons. and had given bonds with
GOOD individual security TO sailsiy all the
liabilities Of the old Bond, so that If Comp
wouid agree to take the obligation of the
new Board for the balance Of his claim up
on defendants. that it would be entirely safe,
that influenced by these representations on
the part of defendants, Compt was induced
% assent 10 The arrangement, and on the 7th
November lSSa the new board executed to
SOU. 45, the balance o: his cfait1 dRfinst dRfin g
the old board that Com2t brought ct II on
said note against the new board, that Judg-
men; was rendered thereup0n at the June
Term of The Circuit Court or Marshall
County IS4I, and execution issued thereon,
and returned nutia bona by the Sheriff. said
new board, or said trustees of the UniVer-
sity of Holly Springs as a corporate body
having no effects out of which ComPls
claim could be made, that trustees OF SAID
Literary Institution who employed Compl
as Teacher, and who upon settlement were
indebted and liza ble 10 Compl IN their indi-
vidual capacity, and knew when they in
duced Compl 10 transfer his claim from them
to the new board that said new board would
be liable only in their corporate character,
and that in that character were wholly des
liture of means TO disch barge compls claim,
that al the representations made TO him by
defendants in regard to the soivency OF the
new board, were wholly false and fraudu-
lent, and that defendants knew them to be
so, and made them for the purpose OF fraud
uIentIv and dishonesty, avoiding the pay.
ment OF compls claim, that many if m ost
of the trustees of the Literary Instiution
were also members of The new board, after
tie Institution had been incorporated.


Prayer, that the judg gment aforesaid and
the note on which it is founded be cancelled
and that defendants be compelled to pay
CON pI his claim with all interest and COSTS
and for general relief


LUCAS, LANE & CLAPP, SoFrs