This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1858 |
| Citation: | 21 Tex. 597 |
| Jurisdiction: | Texas |
| People: | Hannah, Andy |
| Short Summary: | Suit by children of deceased to recover enslaved people Hannah and Andy. Deceased had left Hannah and Andy to his wife, unless she were to remarry then they would go to his children. Wife remarried but kept Hannah and Andy claiming she paid debts of husband prior to his death with her own money in exchange for Hannah and Andy becoming her seperate property and therefore they are now her property seperate from the inheritance. |
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| Full name: | L. H. Little And Wife V. G. H. Birdwell And Others |
| Court: | Supreme Court of Texas |