Petition #20184820

Abstract

Matthew Lyon, the Register & Master, submits his report in a case pitting William Sanders Hooper, Obadiah B. Hooper, and Mary and Robert Perkins against their co-heirs to an estate. Matthew Lyon asks for "a reasonable allowance" for the two days it took him to prepare the report concerning the distribution of slaves--Hannah and her two children, Rachel and Merrick--among the five heirs. The slaves cannot be equitably divided, he explains, and a sale will be necessary. A second report from the Master & Register, issued one year later, reveals that, although an order had issued for the sale of the slaves, the heirs finally came to an agreement, whereby one of the defendants, Sarah Hooper, was given the two slaves as a life estate.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama

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