Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1836 (Alston v. . Hamlin)

In the year 1814, John B. Mebane, intermarried with a daughter of the plaintiff, upon which the plaintiff sent to him several slaves, among whom was the woman *Page 116 Viney now sued for, and another woman who bore the other slaves in question while in the possession of the said Mebane.