Case Name: DUNCAN vs. DUNCAN
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1848-07
Citations: 12 Mo. 157
Docket Number: 
Parties: DUNCAN vs. DUNCAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 157–157

Head Matter:
DUNCAN vs. DUNCAN.
APPEAL FROM OLAY CIRCUIT COURT.
Stringeellow for appellant.
1st. The evidence shows conclusively, that the complainant is not the innocent and inj.uredl party. She was guilty as shown by uncontradicted evidence, not only of equal offences but of similar offences.
2d. If the divorce were properly granted, still the. two slaves boan after the-,marriage were improperly decreed to complainant.,
Wilson for appellee.
Admitting that the divorce was properly granted-, the question is, whether the negroes, born after the marriage, followed the mother, or still belong to Duncan. On this, see 1st Marsh R. 532 y 7 Monroe 232»

Opinion:
McBride, judge,
delivered the opinio,n of the court.
This case comes within the principle decided' in- the case of Nagel vs. Nagel. The decree of the circuit court will be reversed and fch© bill of the complainant dismissed.