Cason v. Hubbard
Mississippi Supreme Court
ERROR to the Chancery Court of Monroe county. Hon. Joel M. Acker, chancellor. This was a bill filed by Martha A. Boone, whilst the widow of James C. Boone, for the recovery of a slave named Charles, and his hire. The bill alleges that in March, A. D. 1854, the complainant intermarried with the said James C. Boone while sh'e was a minor of the age of sixteen years.
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ERROR to the Chancery Court of Monroe county. Hon. Joel M. Acker, chancellor. This was a bill filed by Martha A. Boone, whilst the widow of James C. Boone, for the recovery of a slave named Charles, and his hire. The bill alleges that in March, A. D. 1854, the complainant intermarried with the said James C. Boone while sh'e was a minor of the age of sixteen years. That at the time of her marriage she owned a handsome estate, and among other property “she was the owner of a slave named Charles, worth about ¡$1250, and whose hire is worth about $300 per annum. That after said marriage, and…
1Opinion of the CourtHaNDY, J.
This bill was filed by Martha A. Boone, then the widow of James A. Boone, deceased, to recover from the plaintiffs in error a certain slave, alleged to be her sole and separate property, and which had been sold and conveyed by the deed of herself and husband to Oason, on the 27th July, 1855, whilst she was an infant, of the age of eighteen years. The ground of the relief sought, is the invalidity of the deed as against the rights of the complainant, by reason of her infancy at the date of its execution; and the relief prayed for, is a decree in her favor for the slave and for hire.
A demurrer…
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- Bool v. MixNew York Supreme Court · 1837
- Sanford v. McLeanNew York Court of Chancery · 1831
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