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OF considerat ion Compts services as reach
er, promised to pay him $500 per annum
that IN compliance with said contract Com
plainant removed to Holly Springs and
entered upon his duties as Teacher in said
Institute. the first of January 1888, and con-
tinued IN the employment of Teacher under
said contract during the years 1888 and
1889. that in the year 1889 while he was
engaged as Teacher. the Institution, obtained
a Charter Incorporating it under the name
OF the University of Holly Springs" upon
settlement between Complainant and defend
ants for bis services, the two years, it was
bund that they were indebted to Compt a
balance of S607,45, some time after said In.
stlutlon was incorporated, Compt was told
BY the trustees by whom he had been en-
ployed. that transfer of the Institution had
| aiken place TO 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
subscriptions. and had given bonds with
good individual security 10 satisfy all the
liabilities of the old Bond, so that if Comp
would agree to take the obligation of the
new Board for the balance of his Chin up
on defendants, that it would be entirely safe,
that influenced by these representations on
the part OF defendants, Compt was induced
20 assent to the arrangement, and on the 7th
November 1910, the new board executed to
Compt their promissory note for the sum of
S607. 45, the balance Of his claim against
the old board. that Com2t brought ST on
said note against the new board, that judg-
men; was rendered thereupon at the June
Term of the Circuit Court OF Marshall
County l84l and execution issued thereon,
and returned mutla bona Dy 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 liable to Compl in their indi-
vidual capacity, and knew when they in-
duced Com pl to transfer his claim from them
to the new board that said new board would
be liable onl ly in their corporate character.
and that in that character were wholly des,
titute of means TO discharge compls claim,
that all the representations made to him by
defendants in regard to the solvency 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
ulently and dishonesty. avoiding the pay.
ment of compls claim, that many if not m ost
of the trustees of the Literary Institution
were also members of the new board, after
the Institution had been Incorporated.


Prayer, that the judgment aforesaid and
the note OH which it is founded be cancelled,
and that defendants be compelled to pay
compl his claim with all interest and costs
and for general relief


LUCAS, LANE s. CLAPP, SoPrs.