Nimmo v. Bonney

Morphy J.

The petitioners have taken this appeal from a judgment of nonsuit rendered against them below. As the heirs at law of their uncle George Langley, late of the parish of East Baton Rouge, they claim the delivery of a certain number of slaves, which the deceased, by his last will and testament, left in the possession of the defendants as his executors and legatees. In his will, executed in the olographic form in 1835, the deceased bequeathed to each of the defendants a portion of his slaves, to serve them, and their heirs, until they should severally arrive at the age of thirty years,…