Supreme Court of Alabama, January Term, 1856, Matthew R. Evans vs. Carey: Appeal from the City Court of Mobile caption title

by Edmund S. Dargan

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Mobile, AL: Forsyth & Harris, Printers, 1855 . First edition. 8vo. 8 pp. Text on front wrapper framed by a multi-rule border. Arguing that a new contract is necessary to revive a debt cleared by bankruptcy; the appellant, Matthew Evans, the father of Augusta Evans Wilson 1835-1909; late 19th-century popular novelist of southern themes who lost the family’s property in Georgia to bankruptcy in the 1840s, before moving to Mobile. OCLC locates one

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