Supreme Court of Alabama June 15, 1846 (Brashear v. Williams)

ORMOND, J.

Jesse Brashear, a Choctaw Indian, died in the Indian nation, previous to our laws being extended over it, in possession of a number of slaves. His widow afterwards married one Wall, since which time, and since that portion of the Indian nation has been erected'into the county of Sumter, a portion of these slaves have been levid on, as the property of Mrs.