Thompson v. Thompson

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Caroline Thompson, in 1820, having entered into a marriage engagement with William F. Thompson, who had failed in business and was embarrassed with old outstanding debts, upon the eve of the marriage, at the instance and upon the solicitation of relations of both parties, and the sanction of her intended husband, executed a deed of trust to her brother Wm. L. Thompson, who had the entire confidence of the whole family, by which she conveyed to him all her estate, consisting of slaves, money, and demands for money, coming from her deceased father’s…