Ashley's adm'rs v. Denton

Opinion of the Court.

Thomas Denton and wife exhibited this bill in chancery against the administrators of Thomas Ashley, deceased, charging, that said decedent was the son of the female complainant, by a former husband ; that during her widowhood, she became possessed of sundry slaves, which passed to her from the estate of a deceased relative in North Carolina, where she resided, and that she removed with them to Kentucky, in some of the upper counties; that she entrusted the negroes aforesaid with her said son, for the purpose of his going in search of a suitable residence for her, and…