Supreme Court of Arkansas November 15, 1876 (Jacks v. Adair)

Harrison, J.:

• This was a suit in equity by Mary Ellen Adair, and Martha Griffin, as administratrix of Benjamin F. Griffin, against Eli T. Diamond, Thomas M. Jacks and James Adair,

The complaint, in substance, alleged that Dennis Griffin; a resident of Phillips County, died in 1848, leaving a will by which he emancipated his negro woman Nancy and her four children, Mary Jane, Frank, afterwards