Hackney v. Hackney
Tennessee Supreme Court
This is a bill which was filled in the chancery court at Columbia, by Margaret Hackney against Joseph Hackney. The bill prayed a specific execution of a contract to settle certain slaves on the complainant.
Read the full summary
This is a bill which was filled in the chancery court at Columbia, by Margaret Hackney against Joseph Hackney. The bill prayed a specific execution of a contract to settle certain slaves on the complainant. The bill charges in'substance, that complainant was the owner of several slaves, and that she was married to defendant, Hackney, on express condition and agreement, that he would settle her property on her after marriage, and that defendant had no such intension at the time he made the agreement, but intended and did prac-tise a deliberate fraud on the complainant. These allegations are…
1Opinion of the CourtTurley, J.
This bill is filed for a specific execution of an ante-nuptial contract. The proof shows satisfactorily, that the defendant although urgently requested by the complainant before the marriage to convey her own property in trust for her separate use, with an unlimited power of disposal, always refused so to do, upon the alledged ground, that such a course was in violation of all his preconceived opinions concerning the anticipated relation of husband and wife; that it was calculated to impair the independence of the husband, and to subject them both to the strictures and animadversions of…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Blevins v. Johnson CountyTennessee Supreme Court · 1988
- Allen v. National Bank of NewportCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1992
- In re Don Williams Construction Co.United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1992