Shelton v. Johnson
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. This bill was filed in the Chancery Court at Nashville on the 28th of July, 1856, by Ralph C. and William Shelton, to recover certain slaves in the possession of the defendants. The slaves in controversy have been in the possession of the defendants, and those under whom they claim as innocent purchasers for value and without notice, for more than twenty years.
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FROM DAVIDSON. This bill was filed in the Chancery Court at Nashville on the 28th of July, 1856, by Ralph C. and William Shelton, to recover certain slaves in the possession of the defendants. The slaves in controversy have been in the possession of the defendants, and those under whom they claim as innocent purchasers for value and without notice, for more than twenty years. The complainants insist that they are not barred by the statute of limitations, because during all that time and longer there has been a litigation pending in the Courts of Virginia about these slaves, to which the…
1Opinion of the CourtOaeutheRS, J.
This case raises a question upon the application of the doctrine of lis pendens in a shape in which it has not before perhaps been presented to our Courts. It comes up upon demurrer to the hill. The facts set forth in the hill are these: Joshua Shelton, of Virginia, by his will, left the slaves from which those in controversy descended to his wife Polly Shelton for life, and then to the complainants. In 1819, they filed their hill in the Chancery Court at Lynchburg, Virginia, against the widow and Bell and Woodruff, upon the ground that they had conspired to defeat the remainder, and to have…
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