Redmond v. . Coffin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The plaintiff in her bill averred that she was the sole next of kin of the testator of (hedefendant — that lie died in the year 1816, possessed of a number of slaves, and by his v,ill devised as follows: “I give anti bequeath u them (.the slaves) unto the Society of Friends of New “ Monthly Meeting.or their agents and their successors.
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The plaintiff in her bill averred that she was the sole next of kin of the testator of (hedefendant — that lie died in the year 1816, possessed of a number of slaves, and by his v,ill devised as follows: “I give anti bequeath u them (.the slaves) unto the Society of Friends of New “ Monthly Meeting.or their agents and their successors. “I afso give and bequeath all the personal property of “my estate to the above named black people, to be sold “ aiid equally divided amongst them.” The plaintiff averred that the bequest of the slaves to the New Garden Society was a bequest in trust that they…
1Opinion of the Court
By an amendment Eliazur Hunt, Timothy Manney, Josiah Unthank, and George Swain, agents of the New Garden Meeting, were made defendants, and the plaintiff alleged that they had received the said slaves and surplus of the executors, and had hired out the former, and she prayed the same relief against them which in her original bill she had prayed against the executors.
The executors by their answer insisted that the New Garden Meeting as a body politic could take and hold slaves, and averred that believing the bequest to be valid, they had in August, 1816, delivered the slaves, and paid over the…
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