Supreme Court of Missouri July 15, 1848 (Murray v. Fox)

McBride, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Mary Ann Murray, by her next friend, Richard R. Lee, instituted her suit in chancery, by bill, against the defendants, James C. Fox and others, in the Monroe Circuit Court, to regain the possession of certain slaves therein mentioned, which she claims by virtue of a trust deed executed by her brother, William A.