Poston v. . Gillespie
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a bill for an injunction, and to set aside two deeds, as being in fraud of the plaintiff’s marriage, sent from the Court of Equity of Rowan. The plaintiff was engaged in the service of the defendant, E. D. Austin, for the year, 1850, living in his family, during which time an intimacy sprang up between him and Caroline Gillespie, a widow lady, the daughter of Col. Austin, aged about twenty-two years, which resulted in an engagement to marry.
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This was a bill for an injunction, and to set aside two deeds, as being in fraud of the plaintiff’s marriage, sent from the Court of Equity of Rowan. The plaintiff was engaged in the service of the defendant, E. D. Austin, for the year, 1850, living in his family, during which time an intimacy sprang up between him and Caroline Gillespie, a widow lady, the daughter of Col. Austin, aged about twenty-two years, which resulted in an engagement to marry. This she made known to her father, but it was violently opposed by him. At first she concurred, or affected to concur with the wishes of her…
1Opinion of the CourtPeaesoN, C. J.
The plaintiff, and Mrs. Gillespie, had entered into an agreement to marry, and the day for its solemnization was fixed. Three days before the time fixed, for the wedding, her father induces her to convey all of her property, except the negro woman, in whom she had but a life-estate, to the defendant, Lueco M. Gillespie, her infant son, who was before sufficiently well provided for, by his father’s will. After procuring this conveyance, the father still determined to prevent the marriage if he could. He starts off with her to Virginia. In Davie county, at the house of .a relative, she becomes…
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