Petition #20184627

Abstract

Juliet G. Edwards, widow of the late John S. Edwards, states that her late husband left a large estate consisting of real and personal property, including several slaves. According to William Edwards, the money raised from the sale of the estate property not specifically divided was not sufficient to pay all the debts of the estate. As a result, he filed a petition asking the court to order the legatees to surrender some of the property they received from the estate. At the executor's request, the widow filed an answer to the bill and asked that it be granted, done in entire ignorance because she was "not accustomed to this kind of business." The petitioner adds that she sold two of her own slaves "for the purpose of Saving the property of her elder children from being Sacrificed." The petitioner states that William Edwards allowed the estate to be sued on several occasions, reducing the money to pay the debts. Juliet G. Edwards seeks either to withdraw her answer or to amend it and file another in accordance with these facts.

Result: Referred to next term of court.

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Repository: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

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