Campbell v. Hopkins

Mr. Chief Justice "Watkins

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The controversy in this suit, arises out of the will of William Cook, of Virginia, and may be sufficiently understood without any detail of the pleadings. The testator directed a portion of his estate, including a number of negroes on a plantation in Arkansas, to be equally divided among his six youngest children, Prances A., Mildred E., (wife of Francis Hopkins,) Sarah E., (wife of William E. Campbell,) Edwin B., James 0., and Laura J. Cook; the two last named being minors when the suit was instituted, subject, however, to certain…