McAfee v. Ferguson

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the year 1845, John McAfee was married in the State of Missouri, to Ann Broaddus, then a widow, hav*476ing one child a daughter, named Sarah, by her former husband. When the treaty of marriage between them commenced, she was the owner of four slaves, a woman and three children, and other estate not exceeding eight hundred and fifty dollars..During the pendency of the negotiation and in contemplation of the marriage likely to ensue, she executed a deed of trust to her brother John Ferguson, on the four slaves, and a note which she held on Yeldell…