Harvey Griffith's Ad'r. v. Griffith

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of tlie Court.

This bill was filed by Matilda Griffith, widow of Harvey Griffith, to obtain from the administrator, the possession of a female slave, Harriet, alledged to have been conveyed by the father of the complainant, for her sole and separate use, and which the admidistrator had taken from her possession and control, after her husband’s death, and intended to appropriate as a part of the decedent’s estate, to the payment of his debts. The instrument under which the complainant claims, bears date •on the 2d day of January, 1833, when A. Stratton, the…