Sander's Executors v. Sanders

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This bill was filed by Paschal H. Sanders, to recover one-fifth of $370 and interest, alledged to have been received in 1819, by G. W. Sanders, deceased, as guardian of the complainant and four other infant children of Becky Sanders. It appears that the five wards were the children of the said G. W. Sanders by his first wife Becky Sanders; that before their marriage the father of Becky Sanders had died, and certain slaves of his estate had been allotted to her mother as dower, that after the death of the dowress who survived her daughter Mrs.…