Redwood v. Riddick
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in the Superior Court of Chancery for Williamsburg District, between Miles Riddick and Mary his wife, plaintiffs ; and William Redwood, defendant. . _ From the bill, answer, exhibits and depositions, it appearec*’tliat tlle P'a‘ntbf Mary was the only child of Richard Taylor and Diana his wife ; that he had had a former wife, Mar- , , „ . , . . thai daughter ot a certain James Tyree ; that, on his mtermarr*aS'e w*th the sa*^ Martha, her daughter had given him,…
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This was a suit in the Superior Court of Chancery for Williamsburg District, between Miles Riddick and Mary his wife, plaintiffs ; and William Redwood, defendant. . _ From the bill, answer, exhibits and depositions, it appearec*’tliat tlle P'a‘ntbf Mary was the only child of Richard Taylor and Diana his wife ; that he had had a former wife, Mar- , , „ . , . . thai daughter ot a certain James Tyree ; that, on his mtermarr*aS'e w*th the sa*^ Martha, her daughter had given him, among other things, three slaves, which remained in his Possessi°n while that marriage subsisted, and until a short…
1Opinion of the Court
the following Was delivered by Judge Roane as the opinion of this court.
There being sufficient evidence in this case, (independently of the depositions of the two executors,) that the former wife of the appellant purchased the negroes in controversy, with the funds, and on behalf, of the estate of Richard Taylor her former husband, so as t'o constitute her a trustee thereof, in behalf of those entitled to that estate, the court *227has not deemed it necessary to pass an opinion upon the legality or competency of those depositions in reference to the objections made thereto in the argument.
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