Puryear v. Beard
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Conecuh. Detinue for four slaves, by the defendants in error, as trustee for Rebecca Mitchell, and her children, before the Hon. E. Pickens.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Conecuh. Detinue for four slaves, by the defendants in error, as trustee for Rebecca Mitchell, and her children, before the Hon. E. Pickens. From a bill of exceptions, found in the record, it appears, that the plaintiff, to establish the probate of the will of Elizabeth Barge, offered certain transcripts from the records of the court of pleas and quarter sessions, and of the superior court of law for Robeson county, North Carolina, The former shows the offer of the will of Elizabeth Barge for probate, by Charles B. Jones, executor — a caveat thereto by George…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The exemplification of a copy of the' record by which it was proposed to show the probate of the will of Elizabeth Barge, states that the will of the testatrix was offered for probate to the court of pleas and quarter sessions of Robeson county on the fourth Monday of May, 1831, by the executor, Charles B. Jones. Whereupon, George Wilcox, claiming to be next of kin and heir at law of the testatrix, prayed to enter a caveat to the probate ; and an is*128sue of devisavit vel non was ordered to be made up and transmitted to the next superior court of that county for trial, &c. At the term of the…
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