Harris v. McLaran
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Columbus. Hon. Henry Dickinson, judge. The appellants, who are the collateral relations of John Thurman, deceased, being the descendants of his brothers and sisters who were living at the time of death, filed their bill in the court below, to recover about eighty slaves and their hire, from the appellee, Charles McLaran.
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Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Columbus. Hon. Henry Dickinson, judge. The appellants, who are the collateral relations of John Thurman, deceased, being the descendants of his brothers and sisters who were living at the time of death, filed their bill in the court below, to recover about eighty slaves and their hire, from the appellee, Charles McLaran. They claimed as heirs of John Thurman, and his next of kin, after the death of Mrs. Eliza McLaran,. which took place in 1850. They claimed title under the following deed of trust, which was duly executed and delivered in Morgan…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This was a bill originally filed in the Yice Chancery court, at Columbus, by the appellants against the appellee.
The object of the suit was the recovery of a number of slaves, to which the complainants allege title, in virtue of a deed of trust, which was executed by John Thurman, in Morgan county, Alabama, on the 18th of October, 1831. The complainants claim the property in controversy, in the character of heirs at law and next of kin of the said Thurman, at the death of Mrs. McLaran, who, it is averred, possessed a life interest in the said slaves.
It appears, from the allegations of the…
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