| Summary: | Hugh Black died in 1807, having bequeathed certain slaves to his wife for life but without any disposition after her death. His widow Effie received the slaves and sold some of them absolutely, buying with some of the proceeds a slave called Edy. The defendant Ray was charged with being an agent of Effie Black in these transactions and of having had full knowledge of the nature of her estate. Effie Black died before the case, but she had bequeathed Edy, who had subsequently had children, to Ray. The bill prayed delivery of Edy and her issue to the plaintiff. The Supreme Court ruled that there was no precedent for the kind of substitution prayed for, whereby someone with a life interest in a property sells that property and buys another, which is then claimed by the remaindermen in the first. Bill dismissed.
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