Elizabeth Little, heir to the estate of her brother, John M. Jenkins, deceased, requests that her share, mostly slaves, be turned over to a trustee for her sole and separate use, free from the control of her husband. When her first husband died, she explains, she received a handsome estate of horses, cows, hogs, sheep, a dower inheritance of land, a carriage and carriage horses, and fourteen slaves. But when she remarried, this property went to her new husband, as she failed to secure a marriage contract. Now, her husband, Blake Little, is "greatly embarrassed in his circumstances is probably insolvent." She is suing him and James Hair, administrators of her brother's estate, in order to protect herself and her eight children, several of whom "are young and helpless."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Sumter County Courthouse, Livingston, Alabama
