Petition #21383324

Abstract

Elvira and Richard Corvin, minor children of the late Thomas Corvin, seek to protect their inheritance. The siblings explain that they were entitled to two thirds of their father's estate upon his death, while their mother, Frances, became entitled to one third. Frances administered the entire estate and rented and hired out the land and slaves for several years. She later married Isaac Bush, and the couple moved to Georgia with the children and the property. The Corvins complain that their stepfather "wasted a considerable part of the estate" before he died insolvent. Their mother returned to South Carolina after his death, where five slaves came into the sheriff's possession "by virtue of a pretended levy under a writ of fieri facias against the said Isaac Bush at the suit of James Stallings." The sheriff now threatens to sell the slaves as Bush's property. The petitioners ask the court to enjoin the sale and to compel their mother to account with them "for the real and personal estate aforesaid and the rent and hire thereof." They also ask the court to make Frances's estate "liable" for any "waste" that she or her late husband committed. They finally request that their property be "assigned to them in severalty."

Result: Granted pro confesso; partially granted.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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