Broome v. Alston
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Leon Circuit Court. Augustus Alston in his life time being possessed of considerable real and personal property and having subscribed for stock in the Union Bank of Florida, executed a mortgage on his land and a part of his slaves to secure the stock so taken.
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This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Leon Circuit Court. Augustus Alston in his life time being possessed of considerable real and personal property and having subscribed for stock in the Union Bank of Florida, executed a mortgage on his land and a part of his slaves to secure the stock so taken. In the year 1839 said Augustus Alston died intestate, and administration on his estate was duly granted to his widow, Mary Helen Alston, to whose hands came the property of the estate of said Augustus Alston. In November, 1843, the said Mary Helen Alston intermarried with Sampson H.…
1Opinion of the CourtPearson, J.
Joseph Alston, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Augustus Alston, deceased, seets by his bill to recover the possession of certain slaves, with an account for their hire, conveyed in a deed of marriage settlement by Mary Helen Alston, the widow and first administratrix of Augustus Alston, deceased, to James E. Broome, as trustee, for the uses therein declared, in consideration of an anticipated marriage on her part with Sampson Butler. These slaves consisted of those allotted to the widow Alston as her dower or statutory portion of her husband’s slaves, in *317•which she took a life…
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