Gillespie's Adm'r v. Burleson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgau. Tried before the Hon. JOHN E. Moore. This action was brought by the appellant, as the administrator of James Gillespie,' deceased, to recover a negro woman, named Hester, and her children, whom the defendant claimed under a purchase from the widow of said Gillespie. , On the trial, as the bill of exceptions states, the plaintiff offered in evidence a written agreement, signed by the defendant’s attorneys, in these words: “ In this…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgau. Tried before the Hon. JOHN E. Moore. This action was brought by the appellant, as the administrator of James Gillespie,' deceased, to recover a negro woman, named Hester, and her children, whom the defendant claimed under a purchase from the widow of said Gillespie. , On the trial, as the bill of exceptions states, the plaintiff offered in evidence a written agreement, signed by the defendant’s attorneys, in these words: “ In this ease it is admitted, that plaintiff is the administrator of James Gillespie, deceased, by regular appointment from the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalkee, J.
"The appellant, as the administrator of the *561estate of James Gillespie, deceased, was the plaintiff in a suit involving the title to-a negro woman, Hester, and her children. A parol gift of Hester was made, in 1833, and before the birth of the other slaves, by Henry Johnson, to his daughter, Lucy Gillespie, who was, at the time «of the gift, the wife of James Gillespie, the appellant's intestate. Lucy Gillespie survived her husband, and after his death, sold the slaves to the appel-lee. The question in the court below seems to have been, whether the title to the negroes vested in the husband…
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