Marlow v. King

Hemphill, Ch. J.

Martha A. Marlow departed this life without issue, leaving David M. Marlow, one of the appellants, her surviving husband. Her mother had died a long time previous to her death, and her father married subsequently to her mother’s death, and there were several children, the issue of this second marriage. These children, being the half brothers and sisters of the said Martha A. Marlow, as also her father P. A. Walton, survived the death of the said Martha. She left three slaves as her separate property. Her husband and her father, some time after her death, agreed that the…