Hollifield v. Stell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, in Payette Superior Court. Tried before Judge O. Warner, September Term, 1854. The sole question in this case arose upon the following clause in the will of Tobias Lasseter: “In case the said Kate (a negro woman) shall bear a child, to live to the age of two years, my desire is, that my daughter Christina Lasseter may be possessed of it; and in case the said Christina should die without an heir of her body, then the said child to be sold, and the money equally…
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Trover, in Payette Superior Court. Tried before Judge O. Warner, September Term, 1854. The sole question in this case arose upon the following clause in the will of Tobias Lasseter: “In case the said Kate (a negro woman) shall bear a child, to live to the age of two years, my desire is, that my daughter Christina Lasseter may be possessed of it; and in case the said Christina should die without an heir of her body, then the said child to be sold, and the money equally divided between the three eldest brothers and their sister, namely: Benjamin Lasseter, Jesse Lasseter, John Lasseter and…
1Opinion of the Court
*281 By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] This was an action of trover, brought by the plaintiffs in error against the defendants in error, to recover a number of slaves therein enumerated. The plaintiffs relied, for their title on the will of Tobias Lasseter, made in 1801, and admitted to probate in Greene County in 1804. It contains, amongst other things, the following item: “ I likewise give to my son, Hardy Lasseter, a negro woman named Kate, and in case the said Kate shall bear a child to live to the age of two years, my desire is, that my daughter, Christina Lasseter, may be…
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