Bertie v. Walker

In November, 1838, the petitioner obtained against her husband, James E. Bertie, a decree of separation of property, allowing her as her paraphernal effects a piano worth about three hundred dollars, and a sum of fifty dollars, belonging to her, and collected by her husband. After the rendering of this judgment, to wit, on the 14th of February, 1839, she bought a negro slave named Matilda, in her own name, for the price of eleven hundred and fifty dollars. This slave having been seized by the defendant, at the instance of Fellows, Cargill, and Company, judgment creditors of her husband, to…