James v. Hynson

• Mrs. M. J. Calvit, a married woman, separate in property, died in 1862, leaving one child, named William N. Calvit, the issue of her marriage with J. A. Calvit, who died in 1865. This son, after the death of his father, continued to reside on the plantation, the property of his mother at her death, and which the evidence shows he managed from the time of her death as his own property, creating debts and giving mortgages upon it as early as March, 1867. On the twenty-third May, 1866, he confessed judgment in favor of the defendant, It. C. Hynson, which was recorded on sixteenth November,…