Davis v. Garrett

This case is here alone upon the appeal of Mrs. Cordelia Bryant from a decree of the County Court charging her with the value of a negro slave as an advancement. In 1859 Mrs. Bryant’s father made to her a deed of gift to a slave girl nine years of age.

The donee at date of this deed was but about seven years of age, and residing with her father, where she continued to reside until -her marriage ■more than ten years afterward. The subject of the gift was then and continued upon the premises of the donor until she voluntarily left after close of the Civil War and her emancipation.

This deed was…