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Effect of Sale & Warranty of Chattels where
Vender subsequently [?] better title

Case Stated by Mr E. [?] Ey, of Nottaway [CH.?]
June 2. 1838.

Dr James Jones, late of the county of [Nottoway?], died
in 1848m and on the 6' day of July of that year, his will was admitted
to probate.

He left the whole of his estate real & personal, to h is
wife, Mrs Catharine Jones, for her life, with a [?] to give
"to any of one friends or relations, any of one slaves she
may see fit to dispose of either in her life-time, or at her
death, by will", with the exception of one slave by name.

He gave his lands, after his wife's death, to
his brother, Richard Jones for life, remainder to Richard's
son Joseph Addison Jones in fee, provided he should be
alive at his father's death, [?] [?] mind, but if not alive,
or any other circumstance should render if improper for
him to have the property in [judgment?] of his father, with-
[?] to the latter to give it to any other of his children.

All the slaves not [disp?] of by his wife, in
pursuance of the [puns?] given her, (with certain exceptions),
he gave to his bother Richard for life, remained to Richard's
son, Joseph Addison Jones, [?] to the same restiutions &
contingencies as in the case of the lands.

Richard Jones seems to have died after
the [testates?], [?] [?] any one to take the
remainder in either lands or slaves, in place of his low,
Joseph Addison. The widow, Ms Catharine Jones, yet [?].

On the 19' day of December 1855, in considera-
tion of $14000, Joseph Addison Jones, by dead reciting the
precisions of the will, converged to Thomas H. Campbell, with
general warranty, the lands to which he was entitled in
remainder, under his uncle's will, and also-

"all right title and interest which he has in and to
all of the slaves, money, and perishable estate to him be-
queathed by the said will of the said James Jones, and all
rights which he has acquired to said slaves and pers-
onal property, perishable estate & money, and all of the
said slaves and money and perishable estate, the _Jo-
seph A. Jones doth hereby convey to the said Thomas A.
Campbell, subject only to the life-estate of the said Catha-
rine Jones in the same".

"All the said Joseph A. Jones doth by these presents