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McCLELLAN VS. KENNEDY. 287 whom, together with the executors of Hillen, answered jointly, and admit the guardianship of said Richard B. Mitchell, his indebtedness to his ward, the complainant, Maria, on the 5th of March, 1834, in the sum of $14,891 14; and that said Maria attained the age of eighteen years, and married, as stated in the bill. Their answer then states and charges, that said Henrietta A. Bedford was the daughter of Guning S. and Elizabeth Bedford (the latter being the only child of Daniel Deady, formerly of Baltimore); that her father died in 1809, and her mother afterwards married the said Richard Bennet Mitchell, and died in 1816. That by his marriage with her mother, the said Richard became her guardian, she having become possessed of a large property, by the will of her grand- father, the said Deady. That being young and inexperienced, and left altogether under the guidance and authority of the said Richard, she was unhappily persuaded by him to become his wife, and not knowing that in her circumstances and rela- tionship, this was forbidden by the laws of Maryland, she was married to him. That whilst married to her mother, the said Richard had three children, Elizabeth, Maria, and Frederick, the latter of whom died a minor, and that Elizabeth has also died within a few years past. That the marriage between the said Richard and Henrietta took place on the 26th of February, 1825, and on the 23d of March following, the said Richard, as this defendant Henrietta alleges, using his influence over her, which was at that time greatly increased by the peculiar cir- cumstances attending his pretended marriage, and exerting a control over her, which deprived her of the free exercise of her will and judgment, induced her to execute a deed to him, dated on that day, by which she conveyed to him all the pro- perty and estate which she had received under the will of her grandfather, being all the property and estate of which she was possessed; that on the following day (24th of March), she Was in like manner induced to join with the said Mitchell, in a conveyance of all the said property to one Thomas H. Wright, and that on the 25th of March, 1825, being the next day, the said Wright reconveyed all said property to said |
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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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