Rhodes v. Hooper

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

John Rhodes died in 1830, leaving Sarah Rhodes, his widow in community, and six minor children, James, Armislead, John, Benjamin, Alexander and Theodore B. Rhodes. Two of these children have since died; namely, Alexander, in 1843, and Armislead subsequent to the institution of this suit.

It appears that the widow and minors were the owners in common of several slaves, some of whom were purchased by the widow after the death of her husband, and that upon an execution issued in the case of Skolfield v. T. B. Rhodes, Sarah Rhodes and E. Hooper in…