Guardian of Christian v. Christian
Supreme Court of Alabama
QUESTION IN THIS CASE. As to the hire of slaves, bequeathed in futuro. In this case, Daniel Hovey, guardian of John W. Christian, filed a petition in the Orphans’ Court of Wilcox, praying an account of the estate of his ward, in the hands of Christian, the administratrix, cum tes-tamento amiezo, of the estate of George Christian, deceased.
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QUESTION IN THIS CASE. As to the hire of slaves, bequeathed in futuro. In this case, Daniel Hovey, guardian of John W. Christian, filed a petition in the Orphans’ Court of Wilcox, praying an account of the estate of his ward, in the hands of Christian, the administratrix, cum tes-tamento amiezo, of the estate of George Christian, deceased. George Christian was the grand father : and the object of the petition was to obtain an account of the hire of certain slaves, bequeathed by him, to the plaintiff’s ward. The clause of the will, on which this matter was predicated, was of the following…
1Opinion of the CourtHitchcock, C. J.
This was a, writ of error, tothe County Court of Wilcox County, to reverse a decree of that Court, in the matter of the will of George Christian.
The testator, by his will, after making sundry specific devises and bequests, to his wife, and several of his older children, makes the following bequest.
"8. I give to my grand-son, John W. Christian, an equal dividend of the slaves, with the following named children, [here naming nine,] to whom I gave the slaves,' as before mentioned, to be equally divided, when James A. Christian arrives at the age of twenty-one years.”
The estate having been…
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