Johnston v. . Pasteur

This case was argued by Mr. Woods for the plaintiff, and by Mr. Haywood for the defendant. Few questions have been more frequently agitated in this State than that concerning the extent of a husband's property in slaves belonging to the wife, but not reduced into possession during the coverture. Though the opinions of the judges on this subject have been different under the former judiciary establishment, and no judgment of sufficient authority was then given so as to settle the law, yet several recent decisions of this court have distinctly expressed the sentiments of all its members. In the…