Swiney v. Swiney
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MARSHALL. Appeal from the Chancery Court at Lewisburg. J.ohn V. Wright, Sp. Ch.
1Opinion of the CourtFreeman, J.
In 1853 Wm. Swiney, the ancestor of defendant, A. N. Swiney, made a deed of two tracts of land in trust to Humphrey Cowden, of Marshall county, the *317residence of said Swiney. The deed is a voluntary one. The property conveyed is thus described: “Two tracts of land adjoining each other, in Marshall county, Tennessee, containing in all about three hundred and fifty-three and one-half acres, eleven slaves and their increase (naming them), hogs, horses, cattle, sheep, etc., and property of every description whatever, (the land being the land on which I now live). Also all the ' notes and accounts…
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