Wells v. Treadwell
Mississippi Supreme Court
ON appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. Mrs. Treadwell, by her next friend, George Robinson, filed her bill in the superior court of chancery against Mary Wells and Owen G. Treadwell, the husband of the said Mary P. The bill shows that the said Mary P. Treadwell and Owen G. Treadwell were married in the State of North Carolina in the year 1823. That she received a considerable negro property from her father at the time of her marriage.
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ON appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Charles Scott, chancellor. Mrs. Treadwell, by her next friend, George Robinson, filed her bill in the superior court of chancery against Mary Wells and Owen G. Treadwell, the husband of the said Mary P. The bill shows that the said Mary P. Treadwell and Owen G. Treadwell were married in the State of North Carolina in the year 1823. That she received a considerable negro property from her father at the time of her marriage. That she and her husband, Owen G. Treadwell, removed to and settled in this State about the year 1835. That her said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Handy
*724The. substance of this bill is, that the complainant, Mary P. Treadwell, was married to her husband, Owen G. Treadwell, in the State of North Carolina, in the year 1823, and received a considerable estate, partly in slaves, from her father, which came to the possession of her husband; that she and her husband removed to this State in the year 1835, bringing with them said slaves, and her husband afterwards sold much of the property which came to her from her father, including two slaves named Dicey and Eda; that afterwards, in the year 1844, her husband, being then unembarrassed, and for the…
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