Davis v. Tingle

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1788, a slave named Harriet, then a small girl, belonging to the estate of John Ball, deceased,, was allotted to the widow of the decedent as dower.- The allotment was made by the Comity Court of Faquier county, Virginia. The widow removed to Kentucky about the year 1796. In the year 1808, she made a deed of gift of Harriet and other slaves, to H. R. Graham, her son by a second husband; which deed purported to transfer an absolute title in the slaves to the donee. Harriet is the mother of Tom, the present plaintiff. In 1826 they were both…