PARKER v. PHILLIPS

Where a father, upon the marriage of his daughter, sends negroes or other property with her in marriage, it is prima facie a gift.

STONE, J.,

ruled according to the former decisions in Farrell v. Perry, ante, 2; Carter v. Rutland, ante, 97, and Whitmell v. Moore, decided at Edenton, prior to the two others: Where a father, upon the marriage of his daughter, sends negroes or other property with her, upon her marriage, to her husband's house, that it is a gift, unless the contrary be proven: which in the present case not having been done, there was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.