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State v. LaCreux 1 McMul. 488, Court of Three of South Carolina (October 01, 1835) 1835 In an indictment for inveigling, &c. Edmond, the slave of L. J. Cross, it was held not necessary to alledge that L. J. C. was the owner or employer of the said slave. It is sufficient if the charge is laid one negro slave of L. J. C. The material words of the statute under which an indictment is framed, must be used. It is not... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Negro Evans 7 G. & J. 290, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1835) 1835 Where a statute creates an offence, which did not exist at common law, or changes the nature or degree of an offence existing at common law, there an indictment for such offence must conclude against the form of the statute; but if a statute only direct a different mode of punishment for a common law offence, the indictment may conclude against the... Most Relevant Cases  
Stevens v. Bransford 6 Leigh 246, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1835) 1835 (Absent Tucker, P.) In debt on an indemnifying bond given to a sheriff for seizure and sale of a slave under execution, it is competent to the defendants to prove, that the relator of the plaintiff had only a life estate in the slave, though it appear that he had bona fide purchased of the tenant for life an absolute estate. Quere, whether in such... Most Relevant Cases  
Stewart v. Dugin 4 Mo. 245, Supreme Court of Missouri (October 01, 1835) 1835 The appellants brought a bill in chancery in which they state, that in October, 1834, Dugin sold to W. Stewart, a negro boy, a slave, named Bill, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and that William Stewart, the purchaser, gave his bond for the payment of the money, with W. R. Stewart his security; that Dugin has brought suit on the bond and... Most Relevant Cases  
Switzer v. Holloway's Guardians 2 Port. 88, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1835) 1835 This is an action of detinue, brought by the defendant in this Court, by his guardians, for a negro. The declaration is in the common form; but no profert is made of the letters of guardianship. The defendant below, pleaded, 1. Non detinetto which there was issue. 2. Purchased of Billy Holloway,to... Most Relevant Cases  
Tanner v. Allison 3 Dana 422, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 16, 1835) 1835 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR CALDWELL COUNTY. This is an action of detinue, brought, in the year 1830, by Allison against Tanner, for a slave named Edmund; on the trial of which, upon the general issue, a verdict and judgment were obtained by the plaintiff. And the only question we shall consider, is, whether the circuit judge erred, in rejecting... Most Relevant Cases  
Tatum v. Young 1 Port. 298, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1835) 1835 Error from the Circuit Court of Autauga County--Before the Hon. P. T. HARRIS. In this cause, which was an action of detinue for a slave, brought by Young against Tatum, the plaintiff challenged a juror for cause. The juror being sworn, stated, that he had been employed by the defendant, Tatum, to go to Selma after the slave in question; that he was... Most Relevant Cases  
Taylor v. Buckner 4 Cranch C.C. 540, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (May 01, 1835) 1835 Petition for freedom by Negro Charles Taylor, and others; six cases; removed from Washington to Alexandria county for a fair trial. The petitioners claim freedom by reason of their importation from Virginia into the county of Washington to reside, contrary to the Maryland act of 1796, c. 67, § 1. Most Relevant Cases  
Thompson v. Perry 2 Hill Eq. 204, Court of Appeals of Law and Equity of South Carolina (March 01, 1835) 1835 The first question, among those discussed, is whether the plaintiffs, Thompson and wife are entitled to contribution for the slave sold, and to have James Murray and wife decreed liable with respect to the slave threatened with sale. It is unnecessary to go into this matter at all, since this being a case of separate conveyances, unless there is... Most Relevant Cases  
Thornton v. Davis 4 Cranch C.C. 500, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (March 01, 1835) 1835 Petition [by negro John Thornton] for freedom. Upon filing the petition, and a bill for an injunction, the chief justice had, in vacation, granted an injunction to restrain the defendant from removing the petitioner from the jurisdiction of the court until further order. Most Relevant Cases  
Torrence v. Graham 1 Dev. & Bat. 284, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1835) 1835 Where no particular instructions were asked on the trial, a new trial will not be granted, unless the party praying it can show that the jury was probably misled by the charge of the judge. When a controversy turns upon the question, whether certain slaves which were put into the possession of a daughter upon her marriage, were intended as a gift... Most Relevant Cases  
U S v. Battiste 2 Sumn. 240, Circuit Court, D Massachusetts (October 01, 1835) 1835 Indictment for a capital offence, in being engaged in the transportation of slaves, contrary to the fourth section of the act of May 15, 1820 (chapter 113). Plea, not guilty. At the trial, the facts were substantially as follows: It appeared that John Battiste sailed from New York, in July, 1834, in the brig America, a vessel belonging to the... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
U S v. Beddo 4 Cranch C.C. 664, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 The defendants were convicted of a cheat, by passing and imposing a paper having the appearance of a bank-note, upon a free negro, born of a free colored mother. The only witnesses for the prosecution were free negroes and mulattoes, born of free colored mothers. The defendants were free mulattoes. After the trial, it was discovered by Mr. Bradley,... Most Relevant Cases  
U S v. Nelson 4 Cranch C.C. 579, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (October 01, 1835) 1835 The prisoner [negro Nelson] was convicted of stealing a hair cap, of the value of one dollar and twenty-five cents. It appears, in evidence, that he was a slave, although not charged as such in the indictment. Most Relevant Cases  
U S v. Sims 4 Cranch C.C. 618, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 Indictment [against the negro Henry Sims] for highway robbery of one Latimer, by snatching his watch from his side pocket, it being fastened to his neck by a ribbon, which was broken by the first snatch, the owner not having been put in fear. Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Bowen 4 Cranch C.C. 604, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 Indictment of a slave for an attempt to murder his mistress; and for burglary. The defendant [John Arthur Bowen] was the slave of Mrs. Anna Maria Thorton. The indictment contained three counts. The first was under the Maryland law of 1751 (chapter 14, § 2), which enacts that slaves, convicted of attempting to murder any person, shall... Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Cross 4 Cranch C.C. 603, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 The first count of the indictment was for a common assault and battery on one negro Milly. The second count charged the defendant [George Cross] with an assault upon one negro Milly, in a public road and highway in the county aforesaid, and cruelly beating her, to the great damage of the said Milly and to the... Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Davidson 4 Cranch C.C. 576, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (March 01, 1835) 1835 Indictment [against Lewis G. Davidson and I. W. Stratton] for assault and battery on a negro, a servant at Fuller's Hotel. Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Frye 4 Cranch C.C. 539, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (May 01, 1835) 1835 This was an indictment against [Henry Frye] a slave for the manslaughter of Robert Jackson. Verdict, guilty. Motion in arrest of judgment, and for a new trial. Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Henning 4 Cranch C.C. 608, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 The defendant, Washington Henning, alias Haney Hedley, was convicted upon an indictment for attempting to sell a free mulatto boy as a slave for life, contrary to the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of the Maryland act of 1796 (chapter 67). The indictment contained three counts, each concluding against the form of the statute. The first count... Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Soper 4 Cranch C.C. 623, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 This was an indictment for conspirary to extort money from one William Hickey, by seizing two of his slaves, and confining them in Maryland, as runaways, so that the defendants [Soper and Webster] might claim the reward allowed by the laws of Maryland for taking up runaway slaves. Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Spalding 4 Cranch C.C. 616, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1835) 1835 Indictment for a conspiracy to cheat one Washington Roby by selling him a free negro as a slave for life. The first count charged that the defendants [Richard Spalding and Ellen Dwyer] conspired to cheat him by selling to him a certain negro boy as a slave for life, (and as the property of the said Ellen,) whom they then and there offered to sell... Most Relevant Cases  
Vines v. Brownrigg 1 Dev. & Bat. 239, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1835) 1835 The judgment in the action of detinue was conditional, (Peters v. Heyward, Cro. Jac. 682,) and if drawn out in form, would have run thus: It is considered by the Court, that Samuel Vines, do recover against the said Obedience Brownrigg, the said slaves, or the sum of dollars, for the value of the same, if the said Samuel Vines cannot have again... Most Relevant Cases  
W. Hoskins & Co. v. Carroll 15 Tenn. 505, Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of Tennessee (March 01, 1835) 1835 The circuit judge in his charge to the jury left them to consider of the case in one of three aspects: First, as to the honest intent of the parties to the mortgage deed; second, was the power given by the mortgagor to the mortgagee (if it existed at all) to sell the negro a special or limited power? and, thirdly, was it (if given) a general power?... Most Relevant Cases  
Whitton's Adm'r v. Terry 6 Leigh 189, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (March 01, 1835) 1835 (Absent Brooke, J.) A. by deed of trust in his lifetime, mortgages slaves for debt, and the slaves are sold by the trustee, after his death; B. purchases some of these slaves at the trustee's sale, at a full price, and borrows part of the purchase money of A.'s administrator, who charges himself with the same in his administration account, B.... Most Relevant Cases  
Williams v. Greenwade 3 Dana 432, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 29, 1835) 1835 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Statement of the case. This is an action of slander by Greenwade and wife, against Williams, for falsely and maliciously uttering and publishing the following words;--negro Jude said that Mrs. Greenwade was a drunken whore, and it is rumored every where.--On the general issue, verdict and judgment... Most Relevant Cases  
Winn v. Jones 6 Leigh 74, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (February 01, 1835) 1835 In an action by a white man against a free negro, a free negro is not a competent witness for the plaintiff, by statute, 1 Rev. Code, ch. 111. § 5. Two statutory provisions in pari materia are passed at different times, but both are incorporated in several statutes enacted at a general revisal of the statute laws: if there be any difference... Most Relevant Cases  
Wright v. Weatherly 15 Tenn. 367, Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of Tennessee (March 01, 1835) 1835 In a fight between Andrew, the slave of Wright, and Jerry, the slave of Weatherly, Andrew stabbed Jerry so that he shortly thereafter died. Weatherly brought the action against Wright to recover the value of his slave, who had been thus killed by the slave of Wright. The circuit court charged the jury that a master was liable for a trespass which... Most Relevant Cases  
Young v. Carson 1 Dev. & Bat. 360, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1835) 1835 This is a petition for distribution, filed by the next of kin of Andrew Young, deceased, against the administrator with the will annexed. The question submitted for the opinion of this court is, whether the widow is entitled to the slave, Stanford, as a specific legacy, under the will of her husband, Andrew Young? It is contended on behalf of the... Most Relevant Cases  
Aleck v. Tevis 4 Dana 242, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 16, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR SHELBY COUNTY. In the year 1832, Aleck, a boy of color, claiming to be free in consequence of the last will of Cloe Pen, published and admitted to record in the spring of the year 1813, filed a bill in chancery against Samuel Tevis (who holds him as a slave), praying for a decree establishing his freedom and liberating... Most Relevant Cases  
Alston v. Hamlin 2 Dev. & Bat. 115, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1836) 1836 The act of 1806 (Rev. c. 701) having been enacted on purpose to exclude all parol evidence of a gift of slaves, necessarily avoids every parol estoppel that might be set up to defeat its operation. Where the owner of slaves made a parol gift of them to his son-in-law, who bequeathed them to his children, and died leaving his father-in-law executor... Most Relevant Cases  
Anderson v. Negro Baily 8 G. & J. 32, Court of Appeals of Maryland (June 01, 1836) 1836 L, the owner of a female slave, declared by deed of manumission duly executed and recorded in 1803, that she should be free, at thirty years of age, and in case the said negro girl, may hereafter, have a child or children before she arrives at the age of thirty, that then such child or children shall be free, at their birth. Held,... Most Relevant Cases  
Arnett v. Cloudas 4 Dana 299, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 04, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR GRANT COUNTY. This is an agreed case. From the facts agreed, it seems, that one Laban Hughey, under the assumed name of Hilman, fraudulently purchased from Arnett, the negro girl in contest, by imposing upon him, in payment, counterfeit bank bills upon the Bank of the United States, and procured from him a regular bill of... Most Relevant Cases  
Bakewell v. Talbot 4 Dana 216, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 14, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY. Clayton Talbot sued William G. Bakewell, in case for an alleged tort--in negligently permitting Washington, a small boy, the slave of the plaintiff, in the defendant's possession, to be lost or drowned. The declaration contains four counts; but as it is evident, from the proof, that the boy had been... Most Relevant Cases  
Belcher v. Belcher 18 Tenn. 121, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1836) 1836 By the several bills and answers and the proof in these causes it appears that Ferrell Belcher, previous to the year 1820, resided in Twiggs county in the state of Georgia; was a thriving farmer, owning several tracts of land and eight negroes. He had only two children, both of whom were sons, Wiley and Allen. Wiley was elected sheriff of Twiggs... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Bell v. Culpepper 2 Dev. & Bat. 18, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1836) 1836 The exception taken below to that part of the judge's instruction which held that the plaintiff was not barred of his recovery by reason of an election to take the negro Charlotte under the will of Richard Russel, has very properly been given up here. The rule of election in the sense in which it is insisted on by the defendant, is confined... Most Relevant Cases  
Bennett v. Flowers 1 Dev. & Bat. 467, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1836) 1836 Where one made a parol gift of slaves to his son-in-law, and the latter, by direction of the former, gave them, by his will, to the grandchildren of the donor; it was held, that this did not constitute a gift in writing, within the act of 1806, (Rev. ch. 701,) and that the donor might, after the death of his son-in-law, resume the possession of... Most Relevant Cases  
Black v. Meaux 4 Dana 188, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 11, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MERCER COUNTY. The County Court of Mercer having, in 1828, rejected a paper purporting to be the lost will of John Meaux, emancipating about sixty slaves--this Court reversed the order, admitted the paper to record here, as the true last will of said Meaux, and directed the County Court also, to record it. A colored man... Most Relevant Cases  
Blackwell v. Oldham 4 Dana 195, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 11, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MADISON COUNTY. In January, 1831, William Oldham & Co. purchased from Thomas Blackwell and A. G. Daniel, at New Orleans, nine slaves, at the price of four thousand two hundred dollars; for which they paid twelve hundred in a few days, and gave their obligation to discharge and take up a certain bill of exchange for three... Most Relevant Cases  
Bowie v. Hunter 4 Cranch C.C. 699, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (March 01, 1836) 1836 At law. Replevin for a slave named Mahala. The defendant [Alexander Hunter], the marshal of the District of Columbia, had taken the slave by virtue of fi. fa. against one Elizabeth Beale, the mother of the plaintiff [Allen P. Bowie]. The plaintiff claimed the slave under a bill of sale made by her to him, on the 22d of October, 1831, acknowledged... Most Relevant Cases  
Boyce v. Nancy 4 Dana 236, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 16, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR JESSAMINE COUNTY. Nancy, a colored woman, born in the State of Maryland about the year 1795, and claiming to be free in consequence of the last will of Rebecca Ring, proved and established in that State, in the year 1801, brought an action of trespass against Robert Boyce, who had held her as a slave, more than twenty... Most Relevant Cases  
Bridges v. Wood 4 Dana 610, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (November 07, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY. In 1816, James Davis devised to his daughter, Jane Bridges, then the wife of Absalom Bridges a female slave and her increase to be at her own disposal in true faith to her and her heirs forever. Slaves owned by a woman at the time of her marriage, and those which come to her, by bequest or... Most Relevant Cases  
Brown v. Handley 7 Leigh 119, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (January 01, 1836) 1836 (Absent Cabell, J.) A verdict ought not to be set aside as being contrary to evidence, unless the inference which the jury drew from the evidence was plainly not warranted by it. When a father has declared that he has given a slave to a married daughter, and afterwards tells her to go and take possession of the slave, the declaration of the... Most Relevant Cases  
Burley v. Griffith 8 Leigh 442, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (July 01, 1836) 1836 In action on the case, by the owner of a slave committed to jail for safekeeping under the 4th section of the act passed February 25. 1824, Supp. to Rev. Code, ch. 179. against the sheriff for suffering the slave to escape, the declaration omits to state the name of the justice who issued the warrant of commitment: HELD, the objection is not... Most Relevant Cases  
Butler v. Elliston 4 Dana 87, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (May 31, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANDERSON COUNTY. This case presents but a single question necessary to be noticed, and that is, whether, in a bill of sale of a slave, bearing date the 1st of September, but actually executed and delivered on the 14th of October following, the covenant of warranty, expressed as usual in the present tense, shall, as a... Most Relevant Cases  
Carroll v. Pathkiller 3 Port. 279, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1836) 1836 This was an action of detinue for a slave, in which the defendant in error, who is a Cherokee Indian, was the plaintiff. The plea of the defendant, who is a white man, was the general issue, with leave, given by an agreement between the parties, to offer any matter as evidence, which would constitute a good special plea in bar. The verdict was in... Most Relevant Cases  
Choisser v. Hargrave 1 Scam. 317, Supreme Court of Illinois (December 01, 1836) 1836 This action, for an assault and false imprisonment, was brought by the defendant in error, Barney Hargrave, a colored man, against John Choisser (who claimed the defendant in error as an indentured servant,) to try his right to freedom. Upon the trial in the Circuit Court, judgment was rendered in favor of Barney Hargrave, from which judgment... Most Relevant Cases  
City Council of Charleston v. England 3 Hill (SC) 56, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (January 01, 1836) 1836 In an action brought by the City Council, to recover the penalty for violating the Ordinance (City Laws, 185,) requiring badges to be taken out for slaves hired in the city, the City Marshal is a competent witness; but supposing him incompetent from interest, a release of his interest to the plaintiff would restore his competency. The slaves being... Most Relevant Cases  
City Council of Charleston v. England Ril. 50, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (January 01, 1836) 1836 The ordinance of the City Council provides, that no owner or other person, having the care or management of negroes, or other slaves, shall permit any such slave, whether male or female, to be employed on hire, out of their respective houses or families, without first informing the city treasurer of the specific trade or employment, which he or she... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains.
City Council of Charleston v. Gunderman Ril. 79, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (April 01, 1836) 1836 In this case, process was issued against defendant for selling liquor to a slave, whose name and owner was unknown.' The testimony proved that the name of the slave, as well as the name of the owner, were both known to the prosecutor and the city attorney. The jury being charged with the case, and the testimony concluded on the part of the... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains.
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