Machin v. Thompson

On the 21st of December, 1853, Leah Machin, by her husband John Machin, as her next friend, filed a bill on the chancery side of the Arkansas Circuit Court, against Henry J. Thompson, for the recovery of a negro woman named Celia, and her children, with hire, &c. The cause was heard upon bill, answer, replication and an agreed state of facts.

The facts agreed upon by the counsel of the parties are, that on the 4th of October, 1819, Nancy llenwick, a resident of South Carolina, and the mother of Mrs. Machin, by deed of that date, conveyed to the separate use, &c., of Mrs. Machin for her life,…