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Charlotte Taylor, by James M. Walker, her next Friend, Appellant, v. James Taylor, Julia Scarborough, Godfrey Barnsley and Julia, his Wife, Joseph Scarborough and William Scarborough, Robert M. Goodwin, Norman Wallace, and Andrew T. Miller U.S. 183 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0272 and id is 1 raw text is: JANUARY        TERM, 1850.                 183
Taylor v. Taylor et al.
against these defendants, or either of them, - no foundation laid
creating a liability, legal or equitable, to deliver the slaves to
the complainant, or to account for their value or services; they
seem to have been made .parties, one and all, as witnesses to
establish a supposed right of the intestate to the property, under
the idea that, from their connection with the families of the for-
mer owners of the life interest, they might be able to give some
information on the subject. (Story's Eq. Pl., %     234, 244,
245, 510, 519; Cooper's P1. 41, 42; 2 Johns. Oh. 413.)
There are other objections taken: to the relief sought in this
form, which are worthy of consideration; but as the ground
above stated disposes of the case, it is not important that we
should examine them.
The complainant having, in our judgment, failed to set forth
any foundation for relief, the right to the discovery, which is
claimed as incidental, of course fails with it. (Story's Eq. Pl.,
§ 312 and note; 17 Maine, 404; 3 Edw. 107,; 3 Beav. 284.)
The decree below must be affirmed.
Order.
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the rec-
ord from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, holden in and for the County of Alexandria,
and was argued by counsel; on consideration whereof, it is
now here ordered, adjudged, and decreed br this court, that
the decree of the said Circuit Court in this cause be, and the
same is hereby, affirmed, with costs.
CHARLOTTE TAYLOR, BY JAIES M. WALKER, HER NEXT FRIEND, AP-
PELLANT, V. JAMES TAYLOR, JULIA SCARBOROUGH, GODFREY BARNS-
LEY AND JULIA, HIS WIFE, JOSE'PH SCARBOROUGH AND WILLIAM
SCARBOROUGH, ROBERT M. GOODWIN, NORMAN WALLACE, AND
ANDREW T. MILLER.
A deed from a female child, just'of age, and living with her parents, made to -a trus-
tee for the benefit of one of those parents, founded on no real consideration, exe-
cuted under the inflgence of misrepresentation by the parents, and containing in
its preamble a recital of false statements, ordered to be set aside, and the property.
reconveyed to the grantor.
The principles upon which a court of equity interferes to protect persons from undue
and improper influences examined and stated.
THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the .United
States for the District of Georgia, sitting as a court of equity.

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