Maples v. Mitty

This is a suit instituted by the children and forced heirs of Nathaji Maples, deceased, to set aside sales, made by the said Nathan, of the defendants in the cause, to one Jenny Broxton, their mother, as being simulated and in fraud of plaintiffs’ rights as- forced heirs. By a supplemental petition, the plaintiffs moreover pray that the emancipation of the said Jenny Broxton, and of her husband, Phillip Broxton, made many years before the sales of defendants to Jenny, be also revoked and set aside for the same reasons.

The question of the validity of the emancipation of Jenny Broxton and…