Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1853 (Thigpen v. Pitt)

lead-opinion

Joab P. Pitt, owning a large number of slaves, for a good consideration, duly executed to his children, Rebecca Pitt and several others, a deed of gift, conveying to them the slaves Ephraim, Charity, Betty, Jane, Dallas, and thirty-nine others, whose names are set forth in the *Page 44 conveyance, reserving to himself a life estate in these slaves, unless (50) he might please to put