Conner v. Hull
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Attalla county. Hon. E. Gr. Henry, chancellor. This was a bill filed by the appellants (Conner and wife), against the appellees (Hull and wife), to recover a certain slave, now in possession of the latter named parties. The bill sets up title in Mrs. Conner, as one of the heirs at law of B. Trawick, deceased.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Attalla county. Hon. E. Gr. Henry, chancellor. This was a bill filed by the appellants (Conner and wife), against the appellees (Hull and wife), to recover a certain slave, now in possession of the latter named parties. The bill sets up title in Mrs. Conner, as one of the heirs at law of B. Trawick, deceased. It is alleged that the said slave belonged to said Trawick at the time of his death, and went into the hands of his administrators, and was, upon a division of the estate, regularly distributed to Mrs. Conner, in 1853. That, in 1854, E. M. Wells demanded…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
This bill is filed by the complainant, Ann L. Conner, as the heir *432at law of Burwell Trawick, to recover of tbe defendants the possession of the negro man Ned, in controversy, under regular admi- ■ nistration and distribution to her as such heir.
The defendants claim title to said slave Ned, under an instrument in writing, making a declaration of trust in favor of defendant, Isabella Porter (now Isabella Hull), as follows:—
“ For divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving, I have this day given and conveyed to my granddaughter, Isabella Porter, my boy Ned; also, one feather bed,…
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