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11 Va. 595

Ware v. W'Candlish

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided February 15, 1841

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1841-02-15

John Slaughter late of York county, died in 1827, leaving four children, Harriet then the wife of Samuel Badkins, and Lucy, Margaret and Martha Slaughter; and by his last will and testament, after bequeathing three female slaves, named Sally, Mary and Lucy, and their future increase, to Robert M’Candlish, in trust as to the slave Sally for his daughter Harriet Badkins, as to the slave Mary for his daughter Margaret, and as to the slave Lucy for his daughter Martha, to be…

Decided 1841-02-15

TUCKER, P.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court — That under the will of the testator Slaughter, though the appellant Martha was entitled to but a life estate in the slave Lucy, and in her portion of the testator’s residuary estate, she was nevertheless entitled to the absolute ■ property, use and enjoyment of the profits -of - the estate bequeathed to her; and therefore, ’the decree was erroneous in directing any portion of those profits to be converted into capital, whereof she should enjoy only a life estate: That, instead of reinvesting the profits, as directed by the decree, the surplus thereof in the hands of the trustee M’Candlish, after having been duly ascertained by any proper proceeding, should be decreed to be presently paid to the female appellant, or her order, if she be of full age; and if she be yet an infant, to be paid to her so soon as she shall attain to full age, or, in cáse of her death during infancy, ■ to her representatives.

¶2Decree reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings.

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