Hopkirk v. Randolph

MARSHALL, Circuit Justice.

In the year 1790, the defendant, Randolph Harrison, intermarried with the defendant Mary, daughter of Thomas Randolph, deceased, who was then in possession of a maid-servant, a negro girl, and a riding-horse, which had been given her some years before by her father, who was at the time of the gift and of the intermarriage, possessed of a considerable estate. This property was, upon the intermarriage, retained by the donee, and has ever since remained in possession of Randolph Harrison. In the autumn of the year 1793, Thomas Randolph and his three sons, Archibald…