Templeton v. Twitty

This is a suit to recover certain lands lying in Lincoln Comity.

In 1852 Miss Eveline A. Templeton intermarried with Mr. Pinkney L. Twitty. At the time she owned a negro woman and child, which her aunt had previously given to her. Soon after the marriage the negro woman gave birth to another child.

Twitty and his wife regarded and treated these three slaves as her individual property, though they were never in fact formally settled upon her to her . sole and separate use.

When married, and for several years thereafter, Twitty was an overseer for others, and had no home of his own. , Becoming…