Petition #20183301

Abstract

In an amended bill, Drusilla McMeans strengthens her claim to the seven slaves bequeathed to her and her children. Challenging her husband's right to the slaves, her original petition asked the court to prevent the sale of these slaves which had been levied to satisfy the debts of her husband, the defendant, Isaac McMeans. Drusilla states that after the death of her father, she and her husband and their children moved to St. Clair County, Alabama, whereupon she and the defendant executed to their children "a certain deed of Gift of their life estate to the said slaves named in the said Bill of Complaint." The petitioner further states that this deed was recorded prior to the defendant incurring any of the debts that are currently in litigation. The petitioner seeks to have the deed upheld and to settle the estate strictly by the confines of the will.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Talladega County Judicial Building, Talladega, Alabama

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