Richard Curry, tutor of Vernon Gibson, minor son of the late Ann Biggs and Richard T. Gibson, seeks to recover a debt on behalf of Vernon. Curry represents that Vernon’s mother, the late Ann Biggs Gibson, died in 1843, possessed of considerable property, including four slaves. As Ann’s only child and sole heir, Vernon inherited the four slaves. In 1848, Richard Gibson purchased the four slaves from his son for $3,400. In 1849, he collected, on his son’s behalf, a debt of $4,000 due his late wife’s estate and kept the money. Richard Gibson later remarried, had two more children, and then died. The slaves are now in the possession of Gibson’s widow, Mary E. Williams. Curry contends that Vernon has a "special mortgage and vendors privilege" on all the property in his late father’s estate, including the four slaves that used to belong to him. Curry therefore prays that Mary E. Williams Gibson, executrix of her late husband’s succession, be cited to answer the petition and commanded to render a full account of all sums received on behalf of the estate. He asks that Vernon’s mortgage on the estate be recognized and enforced by a sale, if necessary, to pay what is owed to him. A related document indicates that, by the time of the final judgment in 1854, Mary E. Curry had remarried and become Mrs. Miller.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Catahoula Parish Courthouse, Harrisonburg, Louisiana
