Supreme Court of Georgia January 15, 1859 (Lockett v. Mims)

By the Court.

Lumpkin, J.

delivering the opinion.

[1 and 2.] YVe see no error in refusing a new trial on the first and second grounds in the motion. If it be proven that the general plan of a parent is to loan, and not give slaves to his children when they marry or settle in life, it tends to rebut the presumption of a gift, arising from the fact, that certain negroes were permited to go into the