Redford's Administrator v. Peggy
Supreme Court of Virginia
The Appellees, Peggy acd other negroes, who had been slaves of George Redford deceased, appeared in forma pauperis, before the County Court of Powhatan, and applied to the Court to admit to probate a Testamentary Paper, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said Redford.
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The Appellees, Peggy acd other negroes, who had been slaves of George Redford deceased, appeared in forma pauperis, before the County Court of Powhatan, and applied to the Court to admit to probate a Testamentary Paper, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said Redford. The application was resisted by Benjamin T. Davis, Administrator of the estate, and the Court on the 10th October, 1825, decided that it was not the Will of Redford, and refused to admit it to Probate. Prom that Judgment, the paupers appealed to the Superior Court of Daw for Powhatan, where the Judgment of the…
1Opinion of the Court
March 29. The Judges delivered their opinions.*
JUDGE CARR.
This is a case of Probate. George Redford died at a very advanced age, without wife or child, and possessed of a tract of land, and a number of slaves. A paper was produced to the County Court of Powhatan, purporting to be.the Testament- of Redford. There was no witness to it; but persons were produced to prove that the body of the writing, as well as the signature, were'wholly written by Redford. It is a Testament of personals entirely, no notice being taken of the Testator’s land, and the whole intent *of the paper appearing to be,…
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