Handwritten notes dated 2 June 1858, involving the will of a Dr. James Jones, who died in 1848. The will left the whole of his estate (real and personal) to his wife, Mrs. Catharine Jones, for life with a remainder to his brother, Richard Jones, for life with a remainder to Richard's son Joseph Addison Jones in fee. A provision of the will permitted Catharine to give away "to any of our friends or relatives any of our slaves she may see fit to dispense of either in her life time, or at her death, by will." Richard Jones died after the testator but before either Mrs. Catherine Jones or Joseph Addison Jones died. On 19 December 1855, Joseph Addison Jones conveyed for the consideration of $14,000 to Thomas H. Campbell with a general warranty "all right title and interest which he has in and to all of the slaves, money and perishable estate to him bequethed by the said will of the said James Jones..." The question submitted is: "whether if Mrs. Catahrine Jones should by will, in pursuance of the power vested in her, give any of her husband's slaves to Joseph A. Jones, the benefit of the disposition would enure to Campbell?"
