Meadows v. . Meadows
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Craven County, at the Spring Term 1850, his Honor Judge Bai-les- presiding. Edward Meadows died intestate in 1846, and the present suit was instituted by petition by some of his children against the administratrix and widow and other children for distribution of his estate.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Craven County, at the Spring Term 1850, his Honor Judge Bai-les- presiding. Edward Meadows died intestate in 1846, and the present suit was instituted by petition by some of his children against the administratrix and widow and other children for distribution of his estate. A question was made at the hearing, whether one of the children, John A. Meadows, was fully advanced, or not; and as to that the parties argued on the following facts : Edward Meadows was a mechanic, and worked at his trade. When this son John A. was about ten years old, the father…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
The opinion of the Court is clear, that there was no such possession of the son, while he continued to live with his father, as could constitute a good gift of the slave, as an advancement under the statute. An actual delivery and visible change of possession are indispensable to constitute a valid parol gift. This point was so fully investigated in Adams v. Hayes, 2 Ire. 361, that it is only requisite to refer to that case as settling it. The Court holds, however, that the gift of the negro became complete, for the purposes of the question before us, when the son left the father and actually…
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