Strode v. Churchill
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 24. exhibited his bill against the appellee, Churchill, and others, to recover, among other objects, a slave named Tom, held by Churchill under the sale of an officer for debt, by execution against Hugh Wallace Wormley. 'i he claim of Strode is based upon a deed of trust, or marriage settlement, executed by said Wormley to Strode, whose daughter, he married, anterior to the marriage.
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Case 24. exhibited his bill against the appellee, Churchill, and others, to recover, among other objects, a slave named Tom, held by Churchill under the sale of an officer for debt, by execution against Hugh Wallace Wormley. 'i he claim of Strode is based upon a deed of trust, or marriage settlement, executed by said Wormley to Strode, whose daughter, he married, anterior to the marriage. This deed is da. ted on the 5th August 1807, and after reciting the con. templated mart iage, conveys to Strode, in trust, all the estate to which he, the said Hugh Wallace Worm, ley, should be entitled, in…
1Opinion of the Court
2. The deed from John Wormley toBurwell Starke, was rejected on the hearing, and the opinion excepted to. We do not perceive any valid ground on which ^ee(* VYas rejected. It was acknowledged and re. corded in the Superior Court held for the district com. posed of the counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Hamp. s^r<>" Hardy and Shenandoah, within less than a month after ic was executed. The copy offered in ev. idcnce, is certified by the clerk of the superior court of law for the county of Frederick, and keeper of the °®' the district court composed of the afore«hid counties, under his private…
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