Ford v. Newcomer

Certain children and heirs of Mrs. Penelope Ford, sue (in 1854,) to set aside a sale of slaves belonging to their mother’s succession, made by order of court, to pay debts, in 1848, by their brother and co-heir, now deceased, the administrator or curator of Penelope Ford’s estate.

The petition also prays for a partition of Penelope Ford’s estate, and for general relief.

The grounds of nullity alleged in the petition are :

1st. That the succession of Mrs. Ford had been administered as a vacant estate, when in fact it was not vacant, but a succession of which all the heirs were known, and which…