Coleson v. Blanton

This is an appeal in the nature of a writ of error from the Circuit Court of the county of Warren. Blanton sued Coleson in trover for a negro named Hagar, a child of one of the negroes named in the deed of trust from Richard Blanton and Philip Vaughan to Charles Blanton, the plaintiff, dated the 19th of August, 1791, by which deed said negroes were conveyed "to said Charles, his executors and administrators, in trust to and for the following uses; that is to say, to the use of the said Philip, until William (a son of Philip Vaughan, by a daughter of Richard Blanton, which daughter was then…