Wyse v. Dandridge
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Chancery Court at Hernando. Hon. James F. Trotter, vice-chancellor. The appellees filed their bill in the court below in 1853, against W. H. Wyse, appellant’s intestate, to recover two slaves, and their hires. They claimed title under a deed in trust, executed on the 4th day of November, A.D. 1846, to N. W. Dandridge, Jr., in trust for appellees.
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Appeal from tbe District Chancery Court at Hernando. Hon. James F. Trotter, vice-chancellor. The appellees filed their bill in the court below in 1853, against W. H. Wyse, appellant’s intestate, to recover two slaves, and their hires. They claimed title under a deed in trust, executed on the 4th day of November, A.D. 1846, to N. W. Dandridge, Jr., in trust for appellees. This deed recites, that the grantor, Tate, is a resident of Shelby county, Tennessee, and the trustee is a citizen of De Soto county, Mississippi; and, for the consideration of $450, paid by the trustee to the grantor,…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This was a bill filed in the District Chancery Court at Hernando hy the appellees, to recover of the appellant’s testator, two slaves, alleged to be the property of the appellees.
The facts material to the consideration of the case appear to be, that, on the 4th November, 1846, one Jesse M. Tate, for the consideration of the sum of four hundred dollars, executed a deed conveying to Nathaniel W. Dandridge, Jr., of De Soto county, in this State, the two slaves, upon trust, “ that Eliza Dandridge, the mother of Nathaniel W. Dandridge, Jr., should have and be entitled to all the profits arising…
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