Beauchamp v. Whittington

This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff claims the ownership of three slaves, described in her petition as Elisha, John, and Sultey or Susan, whom she inherited from the succession of her decased mother, Mary Montgomery. She alleges that her husband, Herbert F. Whittington., sold these slaves to Thomas M. Anderson, the other defendant, for the price of $1500, by notarial act, dated the 29th of September, 1851, in which she was made a party, and induced by her husband to make a pretended renunciation of her right of mortgage on them, the said Anderson knowing full well her right of…