Huckabee's Adm'r v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Greene. IN tbe matter of the estate of George E. Iluckabee, deceased, on the petition of his widow (now Mrs. Harriet H. Andrews) for her distributive share of the estate.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Greene. IN tbe matter of the estate of George E. Iluckabee, deceased, on the petition of his widow (now Mrs. Harriet H. Andrews) for her distributive share of the estate. The decedent was married to the petitioner in January, 1842 (?) and died in March, 1851. The only controversy in the case was in reference to the title by which the petitioner held certain slaves, to-wit, Bob, Dolly and child, Miles, Irene and Pose ; the question being whether they constituted a part of her separate statutory estate. The probate court ruled that these slaves did not…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The arguments of counsel narrow our labors in this case to a single inquiry: Did Mrs. Andrews acquire the slaves Bob, Dolly and child, Miles, Irene and Pose, under the will of her grand-mother, Mrs. Ann Davis, or under the will of her fathei', W. J. Croom ? If she acquired this property from Mrs. Davis, then it is governed by the statutes securing to married women their separate estates; if from her father, then it is not governed by said statutes; for, by the will of her father, the property given to her was, in express terms, secured to her sole and separate use. If this property came to…
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