Phillips v. McLaughlin

This was a petition filed in the probate court of Clarke county by the appellee, as administrator of Robert McLaughlin, against the appellants, as heirs and distributees of the estate of Robert McLaughlin, alleging that the appellants had received and had in their possession certain slaves and other property of the estate, part of which they had disposed of and had not accounted for to the administrator, and praying that the appellants should be compelled to deliver to the administrator the slaves in their possession, for distribution and settlement according to law, and to account for the…