Griffith v. Dewitt

WRIGHT J.

delivered tlie opinion of tlie Court:

The tobacco in this case was sold by an officer as the property of Thomas A. Williams, the husband, in satisfaction of his debts, and the question is, whether the sale was legal as against the trustee of the wife and her children ?

This tobacco was raised upon a tract of land formerly *187owned by Abner Owen, the first husband of Martha Williams, now the wife of said Thomas A. 'Williams, and at the time of their intermarriage, she had an undivided interest in this land with her children by her first husband. Previous to said intermarriage said Martha…