Williams v. Utterback

*437OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyle.

— -This was a suit in chancery, brought by the appellee ágainst the appellant, for the purpose of obtaining the cancel-tnent of a bill of sale for a slave. The bill alleges that *438the appellee held a life estate in the slave only, being allotted to her as part of her dower in her former hus-hand’s estafe ; that the appellant engaged to marry her, the fulfilment of which engagement he postponed under various pretences from time to time ; that in the mean» time he stated to her it was probable they might have children, and if they should, that he wished them…