Wheeler v. . Wheeler
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Cause removed from the Court of Equity, of Davie .County, at the Fall Term, 1845. The following case was presented by the pleadings. The plaintiffs are tlie infant children of Claudius B. Wheeler and Anne his wife. They sue by their.next friend, and state in their bill, that their maternal grandfather, Nathan Chaffin, made a deed of settlement, for their benefit, in the following words, to-wit: State of North Carolina, Davie County.
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Cause removed from the Court of Equity, of Davie .County, at the Fall Term, 1845. The following case was presented by the pleadings. The plaintiffs are tlie infant children of Claudius B. Wheeler and Anne his wife. They sue by their.next friend, and state in their bill, that their maternal grandfather, Nathan Chaffin, made a deed of settlement, for their benefit, in the following words, to-wit: State of North Carolina, Davie County. December 27th, 1838. ' Know all men by these presents, that I, Nathan Chaffin, of the County and State aforesaid, have this day given to the children of my…
1Opinion of the CourtDaniel, J.
The Court is called upon to put a construction upon the deed mentioned in the bill, and to declare the respective rights of the several persons claiming interests under it. We have examined this very curiously framed deed, and have come to the following opinion, as to the rights of the several parties claiming' under it:
First. That all the slaves mentioned in the deed, and their increase, are to remain in the possession of Claudius B. Wheeler, “ to his own proper use, until the eldest •child gets married or arrives to twenty-one years of age.” This clause in the deed, we think, gives the…
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