Kirkpatrick v. Davidson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover. From Jasper Superior Court. Tried before Judge Merriwetiier. October Term, 1846. The facts of this case, and the grounds of error, are set forth .in the opinion of the Supreme Court, to which the reader is referred.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
This was an action of trover, tried at the October Term, 1846, of the Superior Court of Jasper County. It seems that one Watson Shaw intermarried with Ann Eliza Kirkpatrick, by whom he had issue one child only, Mary Ann Shaw, the plaintiff in the action below. Shortly after the intermarriage, James H. Kirkpatrick, the father of Shaw’s wife, placed in the possession of his daughter a negro girl, named Matilda, stating at the time that he gave the slave to Mrs. Shaw, for her sole and separate use, during her lifetime, and then to her children in…
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