Texas Supreme Court July 1, 1871 (Webster v. Corbett)

Walker, J.

In Purvis v. Sherrod, 12 Texas, 140, a court, *265sitting in a slave State, surrounded by all the influences of the institution, both civil and social, uttered the following noble language: “A bequest of slaves, upon trust that they should be carried to a free State, or to the colony of Liberia, where they may enjoy their freedom, is not void at common law because of the incapacity of