Succession of Williamson

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

Russell M. Williamson, who had lately removed to this State with his family and a'large number of slaves, and was settled in the parish of Madison, died out of the State. After his death, his widow, to frustrate the service of legal process upon the slaves, -removed them, first, to the State of Mississippi, .and afterwards to the parish of Livingston, where she took out letters of administration on the succession of her husband. Williamson left at his death three children by his first marriage, .and one by his surviving wife. Robert W.…