¶1[Wirt and Randolph also argued the cause at large ; but the Court being clearly of opinion that Miss Braxton was to be regarded as a fair purchaser, for a valuable consideration paid by her grandfather, the only point of any importance left to be considered was, whether she had held an exclusive possession of the slaves, and exercised acts of ownership over them. This being a matter of evidence, more than of legal inference, it is detuned unnecessary to insert the arguments at the bar, further than has already been done. J
4 Va. 151
Braxton v. Gaines
Decided October 15, 1809
Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1809-10-15
GAINES, executor of Robert Page and Pollard, administrator of John White, brought a bill in Chancery against the widow and children of Carter Braxton, deceased, who left no executor, and on whose estate no person had administered for the discovery of certain slaves and other property mortgaged to Page and White by Braxton, June 10, 1792, by deed acknowledged and recorded in the General Court, for the purpose of indemnifying them against certain securityships for him; but…
Decided 1809-10-15