Coppage v. Barnett
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Carrollton. Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. On the 16th of April, 1851, the appellant, William A. Coppage, filed his bill in the Vice-Chancery Court at Carrollton, against Lawson C. Barnett and Margaret E. Barnett (formerly Coppage), his wife, to recover certain slaves and other property as hereinafter set out.
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Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Carrollton. Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. On the 16th of April, 1851, the appellant, William A. Coppage, filed his bill in the Vice-Chancery Court at Carrollton, against Lawson C. Barnett and Margaret E. Barnett (formerly Coppage), his wife, to recover certain slaves and other property as hereinafter set out. The bill alleges that the complainant was born in the State of South Carolina, in the year 1806, and that soon thereafter his mother died, leaving himself her only issue, and his father, William Coppage, surviving. That said William…
1Opinion of the CourtHaNdt, J.
This bill was filed by the appellant in the District Chancery Court at Carrollton, to recover certain slaves claimed as his property and in the possession of the appellee, L. C. Barnett. Some of the slaves are claimed to belong to the complainant as a distributee of certain deceased relatives in the State of South Carolina; others are claimed by virtue of a conveyance made to him by his father in the year 1833, in consideration of a large indebtedness to him by his father, who was his guardian for a great number of years in South Carolina, and was indebted to him on that account, and others…
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