Thomas v. White

Opinion of the Court.

George Thomas filed this bill, alleging that bis grandfather, Daniel White, had made his will in Virginia, and devised to his son, William White, the only child then living of his slave Betty, and the nest child that should be born, to his mother, Mary White, the slave being then pregnant, and that she had a child shortly afterwards, which was called Nursey; that said Marv White intermarried with William Thomas, and that when they went to housekeeping, they took with *178said slave Nursey, and were in possession of her for some time; that W illiam Thomas, his father, died,…