Gates v. Flint

The defendants, in behalf of the wife, Jane E. Flint, filed their bill in the Chancery Court to enjoin the sale of the slave George, claimed to be the separate property of the wife, levied on by virtue of an order of sale issued on a judgment in attachment in favor of plaintiffs in error against one Edward B. Mosely, the father of defendant in error, Jane E.

The bill states that many years before the time of filing said bill, the said Mosely gave the said negro. boy — a child — to his said daughter; that on her intermarriage with John C. Flint she took said boy home with her and retained…