Christmas v. . Mitchell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This Cause was transmitted, by consent of parties, frotó the Court of Equity of Warren County, at the Spring Term, lSi§t ^e ^°^°'v^no case now appeared upon the pleadings and evidence; the case having been before this court at a former terrr|) when, certain questions having been decided, the court ordered the case to be remanded, with leave for the plaintiffs to amend their bill.
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This Cause was transmitted, by consent of parties, frotó the Court of Equity of Warren County, at the Spring Term, lSi§t ^e ^°^°'v^no case now appeared upon the pleadings and evidence; the case having been before this court at a former terrr|) when, certain questions having been decided, the court ordered the case to be remanded, with leave for the plaintiffs to amend their bill. The original bill in this case was filed in the year, 1833, and such proceedings were had therein, that this court, at the June Term, in the year 1837, made a declaration of the rights of the parties, as they were…
1Opinion of the CourtNash, J.
There is no controversy at this time between these parties, as to the title of Buckner Davis, the grandfather of the plaintiffs, to the negroes in question, or ns to the character, in which they were held by the defendants, Peter R. and Stephen Davis, his executors. Upon a former occasion, the court has declared in this case, that they did belong to Buckner Davis, and not to his children, and that the executors held them in trust for Mrs. Elizabeth Christmas, during her life, and, after her death, in trust for the plaintiffs. The questions now presented for our determination are: First, is…
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