McCaa v. Woolf
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Marengo Chancery Court. Tried before Hon. N. W. Cocke. This was a bill in equity, filed by Burwell McKinney; against E. T. Watlington, administrator of the estate of Scriven Cox, deceased, and others, praying that a certain action at law, which had been instituted against him by said administrator for certain slaves, might be perpetually enjoined.
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Appeal from Marengo Chancery Court. Tried before Hon. N. W. Cocke. This was a bill in equity, filed by Burwell McKinney; against E. T. Watlington, administrator of the estate of Scriven Cox, deceased, and others, praying that a certain action at law, which had been instituted against him by said administrator for certain slaves, might be perpetually enjoined. In the progress of the ease, the bill was revived against Eleanor McCaa, as administratrix, and successor of Watlington, and in favor of H. A. Woolf et al., as executors of McKinney. The essential facts of the case are so fully and…
1Opinion of the CourtJudge, J.
The principal facts of this case, are as follows :
Scriven Cox, (a young woman,) died in 1811, at about the age of eighteen years, without ever having been married. She left surviving her, as her heirs-at-law and distributees of her estate, two brothers and two married sisters, viz: Joseph H. Cox, Robert L. Cox, Eleanor S. McCaa, the wife of doctor William L. McCaa, and Aramintha Jones, the wife of Dr. James R. Jones. Scriven owned before, and at the time of her death, several slaves. During her last illness, she expressed a desire that her brother Joseph should have, after her decease,…
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