Thompson v. . Newlin

The bill was filed in August, 1843, and states: That Sarah Freeman died in 1839, and that the defendant, Newlin, in August, 1839, propounded for probate, a script as her will, which the plaintiff and Richard Freeman, (her surviving husband, and a defendant in this suit,) caveated; but that, after much litigation in different Courts, it was finally established as a will of her personal estate: That the personal estate consisted of money and bonds to a large amount, and thirty-fire or forty slaves; and that, by the will, the whole personal estate was bequeathed to the defendant Newlin, as sole…