Tennessee Supreme Court December 15, 1865 (Porter ex rel. Porter v. Blakemore)

Milligan, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a hill filed in the Chancery Court at Shel-hyville, in 1859, for the emancipation of George Porter, Jr., Martha Porter and Jane Bell Porter, persons, of color, by their mother and next friend, Rose Porter, a free woman of color.