Tennessee Supreme Court December 15, 1841 (Baldwin v. Baldwin)

GREEN, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the fall of 1830, the complainant, then Mary Florida Dixon,/ a feme sole, and the owner of an estate consisting of fifteen or' twenty thousand dollars in cash, in the hands of her guardian, and thirty or forty negro slaves, contemplating a marriage with the defendant, Henry Baldwin, executed a deed, dated 27th October*,-1830, (in which the said