Guess v. Lubbock

This suit was brought by the appellaut against the appellee to recover a certain lot of gromul and a negro girl. The petition alleges that said property was bought and paid for by' the' plaintiff; that the title was in the name of one Adam Smith, who acted as her trastee; that she, during Smith’s life, controlled tho said property and enjoyed the nse and profits thereof, without any claim on the part of Smith to tiie same so long as Smith lived, and that ailer liis deatli the defendant, as administrator of Smith, got possession of the property and withholds it from her, &c. At the May Term,…