Kimbrough v. . Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
From Wake. The original bill charged, that the Defendant Susan, was the mother of the Plaintiff, and that upon an agreement 0f nian'iage between lice and the Defendant John, the Plaintiff being then an infant, it was agreed that a negro girl, atul some other property, should be conveyed †]10 X>]aintilp, on his arrival at full age — witii an ulterior limitation, in case he should die without issue, to the children of the Defendants.
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From Wake. The original bill charged, that the Defendant Susan, was the mother of the Plaintiff, and that upon an agreement 0f nian'iage between lice and the Defendant John, the Plaintiff being then an infant, it was agreed that a negro girl, atul some other property, should be conveyed †]10 X>]aintilp, on his arrival at full age — witii an ulterior limitation, in case he should die without issue, to the children of the Defendants. That this agreement was made in consideration of tiie intended marriage, and that accordingly an executory contract was drawn up by tiie Defendant John, and signed…
1Opinion of the Court
Tayxor, Chief-Justice.
— The case is, that the Complainant is an illegitimate child of the Defendant’s wife, and he alleges, that immediately before the intermarriage of the Defendant with his mother, it was agreed upon between them and in consideration of the marriage, that a slave and some chattel property belonging to his mother, should be settled upon him and given to him when he arrived at the age of twenty-one years, subject to certain limitations.
The promise to give the negro, is admitted by the Defendant Davis and wife, and that they executed a writing to that effect. The consideration…
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