Keen v. Macey

OPINION of the Court, by;

Judge Owsley.

Cor" helius Duval executed a bill of sale, disposing of certain negroes, of which he was the rightful owner, to his daughter Esther West, during her natural life, and after her decease to be equally divided between such of her children as might be then living. Esther West diedi leaving Vandever West, one of the appellants, and the wife of Keen, two ol her children, then living. West and Keen being possessed of part of the negroes, Macey, the appellee, claiming by purchase from Rezin West, the husband of Esther, brought an action of de-tinue in the…