Baldwin v. Baldwin
Tennessee Supreme Court
This bill was filed in the chancery court at Franklin, on the 21st day of February, 1840, by M. F. Baldwin, by her next friend, Dickerson, against her husband H. Baldwin, Harrison, sheriff of Williamson county, and against Campbell, Parks, and others, who had recovered judgments at law, against H. Baldwin.
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This bill was filed in the chancery court at Franklin, on the 21st day of February, 1840, by M. F. Baldwin, by her next friend, Dickerson, against her husband H. Baldwin, Harrison, sheriff of Williamson county, and against Campbell, Parks, and others, who had recovered judgments at law, against H. Baldwin. It was brought for the purpose of setting up a marriage contract, by which certain real and personal estate, belonging to the wife before marriage, had been conveyed, in contemplation of marriage, to a trustee for her benefit, which deed had never been registered, and for the purpose of…
1Opinion of the CourtGreen, J.
In the fall of 1830, the complainant, then Mary Florida Dixon,/ a feme sole, and the owner of an estate consisting of fifteen or' twenty thousand dollars in cash, in the hands of her guardian, and thirty or forty negro slaves, contemplating a marriage with the defendant, Henry Baldwin, executed a deed, dated 27th October*,-1830, (in which the said Baldwin also joined,) conveying all her property to James W. Hoggatt,in trust for her separate use and benefit.
By the said deed, the said slaves, &c., were to be held for the sole use and benefit of the said Mary F. until the solemnization of the…
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