Twice-widowed Susanna Thompson seeks an account from Enoch Ensley, the administrator of Jason Thompson. The petitioner, a former Louisiana citizen, charges that her late husband Jason appropriated several slaves, sundry notes, and 10 bales of cotton "to his use" during his lifetime "without her authority or consent." She argues that Jason and his son sold slaves, who were given to her by her father or who were part of her inheritance, and that "she never received any portion of the price" for which they were sold. She further contends that Jason went to Louisiana and received $6676 in notes and 10 bales of cotton, "constituting her share of her mothers estate," and that he or his son either sold or "collected the same ... and appropriated to his own use." Thompson maintains that all of the abovementioned property was her sole and separate property, "what is considered by the laws of Louisiana paraphernal property," and that Louisiana law entitles her "upon the dissolution of her marriage with the said Jason Thompson by death to a restoration of all of said negroes that may be alive, or ... to their value" and "to payment of the price for which ten bales of cotton sold" and "to the amount of said notes received." She therefore prays that her charges be answered and that the defendants "be compelled to pay and account to your oratrix."
Result: Partially granted; appealed.
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Repository: Williamson County Courthouse, Franklin, Tennessee
