Price v. Price's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before the Hon. George Goldthwaite. Detinue by the plaintiffs in error against the administrator of Meredith Price, deceased, for certain slaves.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before the Hon. George Goldthwaite. Detinue by the plaintiffs in error against the administrator of Meredith Price, deceased, for certain slaves. The plaintiffs claimed as heirs at law of Polly Woods, under a deed of gift from Richard Price, her father, conveying the mother of the slaves in controversy to the said Polly i! during the natural life of the said Polly and her present husband, Drury Woods, or the survivor of them; and at the death of said Polly and Drury Woods the said negroes, with their increase, are to be returned and delivered to…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
When this case was last here, 5 Ala. 578, it was held, that the legal effect of the deed set out in the record was, to give Drury Woods but a life estate in the slaves conveyed by it, with a contingent remainder to the heirs of Polly Woods, which vested upon her death before the determination of the particular estate. It is unnecessary to inquire into the correctness of this decision upon the point which relates to the *611interest taken by Drury Woods under tbe deed, as it is a sufficient answer to the argument of the counsel upon that question to observe that, under the precedents which have…
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