Protesting the claim that Isaac Rawdon brought very little property to his marriage, Thomas Rawdon , Isaac's brother, contends that shortly after Isaac arrived in Alabama, he purchased four half-sections of land (180 acres each) and a tract containing fifty or sixty acres. He also brought with him several slaves, six of whom, Thomas asserts, he had purchased with money given to him by his father. Isaac, who had killed his son during one of his bouts of insanity, was committed to a Georgia insane asylum. Shortly before his commitment, he sold the land for $6,900, and his former wife, Lydia Rawdon, has collected the money and retained the profits thereof. Thomas Rawdon asks that Lydia Rawdon be ordered to provide an account of her activities and that a "Committee or Guardian for the estate of the said Isaac be appointed."
Result: Dismissed; appealed; affirmed.
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Repository: Talladega County Judicial Building, Talladega, Alabama
