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Kennedy ads. Garlington Harp. 424, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Sum. Pro. Stated that defendants were indebted to the petitioner $50, for unlawfully beating his slave. Demurrer sustained, because it did not appear whether the process was brought for trespass, or to recover a penalty given by statute. Most Relevant Cases  
Magwood ads. Legge Harp. 116, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1824) 1824 H. H. executor of S. P. deceased, but who was not shewn to have ever proved the wills or qualified, sold a slave belonging to his testatrix's estate, to defendant, his executors, administrators, and assigns forever; but did not style himself executor in the bill of sale. By the will of testatrix, the annual income of the property was given to... Most Relevant Cases  
Malone v. Hamilton Minor 286, Supreme Court of Alabama (December 01, 1824) 1824 THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of Washington County. A fi. fa. at the suit of the appellee against Alexander B. Smoot, was delivered to the Sheriff of Washington County on the third and on the fifth of February, 1823, levied on five slaves. The appellants claimed title. A trial of the right of property was had in conformity with the... Most Relevant Cases  
Maria v. Surbaugh 2 Rand. 228, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (February 02, 1824) 1824 Where a testator bequeaths a female slave, upon condition that she shall be free at a certain age, and before that period arrives, she has issue, such issue are slaves. This was an appeal from the Superior Court of Law for Greenbrier County. An action for freedom was brought, in forma pauperis, by Mary, who sued for herself and on behalf of her... Most Relevant Cases  
McGowen v. Hoy 5 Litt. 239, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (May 31, 1824) 1824 This is an appeal from a judgment recovered by Hoy in an action of detinue, which was brought against him by M'Gowen, to recover a negro girl named Rachel. Before the rights of strangers can be affected by an execution, the judgment upon which it issued must be produced. The right to the girl is asserted by each party, through John Hardwick, to... Most Relevant Cases  
Meriwether v. Booker 5 Litt. 254, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 01, 1824) 1824 FROM THE SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT, THE HON. HENRY DAVIDGE SOLE JUDGE. Sarah Meriwether was possessed of sundry slaves, as dower from the estate of her deceased husband. William N. Meriwether, the appellant, one of the heirs to whom the reversion belonged after the dower estate was determined, purchased of Edward M. Booker, who had ma??d one of the... Most Relevant Cases  
Mitchell v. De Graffenreid Harp. 450, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Defendant covenanted to deliver certain slaves when demanded. On non est factum pleaded to an action brought, it was held that the failure to prove a demand was no ground for non-suit, and that defendant could not give evidence of performance. In covenant, the plaintiff is not required nor the defendant allowed to give evidence of any thing that is... Most Relevant Cases  
Murphy v. Trigg 1 T.B.Mon. 72, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 11, 1824) 1824 Contracts, Evidence, Usury, Mortgages. APPEAL FROM THE SHELBY CIRCUIT; HENRY DAVIDGE, JUDGE. The main question in this case, is, whether a bill of sale for a female slave, executed by the complainants to the defendant, was intended to be an absolute conveyance or a mortgage. The bill of sale purports, on its face, to be an absolute conveyance, and... Most Relevant Cases  
Musgrove v. Wofford Harp.Eq. 175, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (April 01, 1824) 1824 Bill to compel tenants for life of slaves, to give security for their forth coming. The answerers denying all fraudulent intention to remove the property or defeat complainants' rights, the bill was dismissed. Most Relevant Cases  
Myers v. Bishop 1 T.B.Mon. 110, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 14, 1824) 1824 Pleading by Defendant, Verdict, Evidence, New Trial. ERROR TO THE NICHOLAS CIRCUIT?? JOHN TRIMBLE, JUDGE. Statement of the case. This was an action of covenant, brought in the circuit court by Myers, upon a stipulation warranting a negro woman sound and healthy, except her toes, which were frost bitten, contained in a bill of sale which was... Most Relevant Cases  
North v. Drayton Harp.Eq. 34, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (March 01, 1824) 1824 A mortgage of negroes was proved, executed by defendant's intestate in 1790, reciting that it was given to secure the payment of a bond for £>>>>715. 18s. 9d. The intestate was afterwards appointed the executor of the obligee; and in 1810, the defendant, in a bill filed in this court for an injunction, swore that he believed the bond to be lost.... Most Relevant Cases  
Outlaw v. Cook Minor 257, Supreme Court of Alabama (December 01, 1824) 1824 THE consideration of the bond was the hire of a slave for a year; two or three months afterwards the slave, by a wound, is disabled from performing any labour; if there be no express agreement to the contrary, the full amount of the hire must be paid. Most Relevant Cases  
Overseers of Poor of South Brunswick v. Overseers of Poor of East Windsor 8 N.J.L. 64, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1824) 1824 If the owner of a slave, who is of sufficient ability to maintain such slave, remove into another state, the slave does not acquire a legal settlement in the township where the master had his last legal setttlement. The act respecting slaves Rev. Laws 375, fixes the legal settlement of an unmanumitted slave, only in the case of insolvency of the... Most Relevant Cases  
Payne ads. Robinson Harp. 279, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1824) 1824 Trover. After the execution of the treaty ceding Florida to the United States, and its ratification by the government of the United States, but before its ratification by Spain, the plaintiff, a British subject, introduced slaves into Florida and put them into the possession of one H. The slaves broke into insurrection and committed various... Most Relevant Cases  
Pope v. Nance Minor 299, Supreme Court of Alabama (December 01, 1824) 1824 THIS was an action of assumpsit in the Circuit Court of Madison County, by John Nance and John R. Lucas, partners, under the firm of John Nance, and Co., for the use of Lucas against Willis Pope and John P. Hickman, late partners under the firm of Pope and Hickman. The declaration contained five counts. The three first, Indeb. asst. for slaves sold... Most Relevant Cases  
Porter ads. Ingram Harp. 492, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 When the premises of a deed of conveyance are complete and perfect and the habendum repugnant thereto, the habendum is void. Donor gives to his daughter a slave, by the premises of a deed, in the usual form, to have and to hold the said slave, after his (the Donor's) death: Held that the gift took effect in presenti. Most Relevant Cases  
Puller's Ex'rs v. Puller 3 Rand. 83, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (December 06, 1824) 1824 A bequest of a female slave and her increase, ought to be construed to apply only to future offspring, if the expression be not enlarged by the context of the will, or other admissible evidence. So decided by two Judges out of three. But, parol evidence of declarations of the testator, cannot be received to explain the intention of the bequest.... Most Relevant Cases  
Rebecca v. Pumphrey 2 Cranch C.C. 514, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1824) 1824 Petition for freedom. The petition stated that the said [negro] Rebecca and her three children, William, Ann, and Margarett, are entitled to their freedom, but are held in slavery and bondage by a certain Lloyd Pumphrey; she therefore prays for a subpoena to him, commanding him to appear and answer the petition. She, also, having reason to... Most Relevant Cases  
Rice v. Hancock Harp. 393, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Defendant agreed to pay a book account at sixty days, and if he should fail to do so, to pay interest from that period. Held that the interest could not be recovered on the common count for goods sold and delivered. Defendant's having given an absolute bill of sale for a slave, stating a past consideration; held not to preclude him from shewing... Most Relevant Cases  
Ruger v. McBurney Harp.Eq. 21, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (March 01, 1824) 1824 Complainant having a life estate in a negro man, who was about to be sold at sheriff's sale, requested defendant to bid him off for her; which he did. Complainant and her husband agreed in writing to warrant and defend the negro to the defendant, till they should refund to him the money paid; which they promised to do on or before the... Most Relevant Cases  
Ruth v. Owens 2 Rand. 507, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (June 11, 1824) 1824 This is a bill filed by the widow of John Owens, against the executor, devisees and legatees, claiming her dower in the real estate, and her portion of the slaves and other personal estate. Answers were filed by the defendants. The Chancellor appointed commissioners to lay off the widow's dower in the lands, and her third of the slaves; and, sent... Most Relevant Cases  
Scudder v. Seals Walker 154, Supreme Court of Mississippi (June 01, 1824) 1824 A refusal by a person without colour of title to restore slaves upon the demand of the true owner to his possession, is such a fraud as brings the case within the provisions of the Habeas Corpus act. Most Relevant Cases  
Semmes v. Sherburne 2 Cranch C.C. 534, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1824) 1824 Trover by husband and wife for the wife's slave. The declaration averred the trover and conversion to have been before the intermarriage, and concluded to the damage of the husband alone. After verdict for the plaintiffs [Jesse M. Semmes and wife], with $300 damages, at April term, 1824, Mr. R. S. Coxe, for the defendant [J. H. Sherburne], moved in... Most Relevant Cases  
Sims v. Saunders Harp. 374, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Plaintiff having given inconclusive testimony of a parol gift and delivery of a slave, introduced the subsequent declarations of the donor, to establish that he had given; held that on the part of defendant, the subsequent acts and declarations of the donor were properly received in evidence, to shew that he had not given. Most Relevant Cases  
Smith v. Crockett Minor 277, Supreme Court of Alabama (December 01, 1824) 1824 SAMUEL G. SMITH brought an action of replevin against William Crockett, in the Circuit Court of Dallas County, charging him with having wrongfully taken and detained from the plaintiff eight negro slaves. The defendant demurred; the Circuit Court sustained the demurrer; and on a writ of Error to this Court, Smith assigned this matter as Error. Most Relevant Cases  
Stanley v. Earl 5 Litt. 281, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 01, 1824) 1824 This is an appeal taken by the defendant from a judgment for the plaintiff, in an action of detinue for slaves. A party remaining in the adverse possession of slaves for five years, thereby becomes invested, in virtue of the statute of limitations, with such a right as to enable him to recover them of the former proprietor, who may have afterwards... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Negro Adam 3 Hawks 188, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1824) 1824 The act of 1741 punishes an act committed by a slave, with whipping and the loss of ears, for the first offence, and with death for the second, on an indictment in the County Court: The act of 1816, gives to the Superior Court jurisdiction of all offences, the punishment whereof may extend to life, and in its 4th sec. enacts, that a slave,... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Woodman 3 Hawks 384, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1824) 1824 The act of 1794, ch. 406, relative to slaves hiring their own time, has two objects in view; 1st, to fine the owner; and, 2d, to abate the nuisance if it be yet continuing, or if it be at an end, to pursue the slave and have him hired out. The necessity of proceeding by presentment under the act of 1794, is repealed by the act of 1797, ch. 474.... Most Relevant Cases  
Tarlton v. Tippett 2 Cranch C.C. 463, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (April 01, 1824) 1824 This was an action by negro Fanny Tarlton against Cartwright Tippett. Petition for freedom. Mr. Alexander Scott had been appointed by the president of the United States, an agent to Caraccas in South America. He went with an intention to remain permanently, if certain events should happen. He took the petitioner with him, and she remained there... Most Relevant Cases  
Tate v. Brittain 3 Hawks 55, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1824) 1824 A mortgage deed not registered in time, when registered, has no relation back to its date, but operates only from the time of registration; it shall not, therefore, avail any thing against an execution levied after its date, and before its registration. This was an action of trespass, for taking a negro boy out of the possession of the Plaintiffs.... Most Relevant Cases  
Texada v. Camp Walker 150, Supreme Court of Mississippi (June 01, 1824) 1824 In trover for the value of a slave, the jury would be instructed to give a verdict for the value of the slave at the date of the conversion with its yearly value from that date. If A sells with warranty an uusound slave to B, in an action by B against A on the warranty, it is no defence to the action, that before its institution B sold the same... Most Relevant Cases  
The Emily 22 U.S. 381, Supreme Court of the United States (February 24, 1824) 1824 APPEAL from the Circuit Court of South Carolina. In each of these two cases, a libel of information was filed in the District Court of South Carolina, against the ship Emily and the brig Caroline, under the 1st section of the act of the 22d of March, 1794, c. 187. [xi.] prohibiting the carrying on the slave trade, from the United States to any... Most Relevant Cases  
The Merino 22 U.S. 391, Supreme Court of the United States (March 05, 1824) 1824 APPEAL from the District Court of Alabama. These were the cases of several vessels, and their eargoes of African slaves. The information filed in the case of the Constitution was, as well on behalf of the United States, as of George M. Brooke, a colonel in the army of the United States. The first count, after stating the seizure of this vessel,... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
The St. Jago de Cuba 22 U.S. 409, Supreme Court of the United States (March 15, 1824) 1824 APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Maryland. A question of fact, under the Slave Trade Acts. Condemnation pronounced. The claim of seamen, for wages, on a voyage, undertaken in violation of the Slave Trade Acts, out of the proceeds of the forfeited vessel in the registry, rejected. The claims of seamen, for wages, and of material men, for supplies,... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Thompson v. Patton 5 Litt. 74, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (April 13, 1824) 1824 This case presents the question, whether the sale or transfer of a slave in contest, was absolute, or whether it was intended as a mortgage. The bill of sale, as it is termed, is absolute upon its face, and contains no expression from which a condition can be implied. The complainant alleges, that at the time he borrowed of the defendant in... Most Relevant Cases  
Turners v. Turner 1 T.B.Mon. 243, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (December 18, 1824) 1824 This is an action of detinue for a slave, and a verdict and judgment were rendered for the defendant in the court below; to reverse which, the plaintiffs have prosecuted this writ of error. A deed which recites that the grantor was aged and infirm, and at times unable to attend to his business, and anticipating incapacity, in consideration of the... Most Relevant Cases  
Vincent v. Perry Harp. 388, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Trover. Defendant, a sheriff, levied on two slaves, under executions. After the levy, the owner sold them to Plaintiff, subject to the sheriff's lien. Plaintiff offered to pay the amount of the executions, but made no tender. Defendant refused to deliver up the slaves, and afterwards sold them. Held that the action would not lie. Most Relevant Cases  
Wade v. Parks 3 Hawks 202, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1824) 1824 The bill was filed by the children of Lemuel Wade, deceased, set forth that Lemuel Wade by his will bequeathed certain negroes to his wife for life, and after her death to the Complainants; that after taking possession of the negroes, the widow intermarried with one Parks, and that Parks had sold the negroes to Wasden, who had conveyed the same out... Most Relevant Cases  
Watson v. Williams Harp. 447, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Trespass for the taking of a slave: defendant justified as having the right of property, and offered in evidence a letter written by a former owner of the slave, acknowledging that he had sold to defendant. Held that the letter was incompetent, as the declation of a third person, between whom and plaintiff there was no privity. Most Relevant Cases  
Willbourn v. Parham Harp. 375, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (November 01, 1824) 1824 Plaintiff and Defendant claimed the same slaves, under different bills of sale from one W. B. Held that W. B. was a competent witness to prove that plaintiff's bill of sale had been obtained by fraud. Most Relevant Cases  
Willinck v. Davis Harp. 260, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1824) 1824 Defendant in Havanna, engaged a passage to Charleston, for herself and slave, in plaintiff's vessel. Her promise at Havanna, to indemnify plaintiff against the damages he might sustain by bringing the slave into Charleston, in violation of the laws of the United States, would have been roid; her promise, after the seizure of the vessel and slave in... Most Relevant Cases  
Worthington v. Preston 30 F.Cas. 645, Circuit Court, ED Pennsylvania (October 01, 1824) 1824 This was an action on the case for not keeping in safety Tom, a fugitive slave, the property of the plaintiff, who was delivered to him by the plaintiff's agent and attorney, to be safely kept in the gaol at Doylestown. Upon the plea of the general issue, it was proved that the defendant was the clerk or deputy of the sheriff of Bucks county, in... Most Relevant Cases  
Wren v. Wardlaw Minor 363, Supreme Court of Alabama (December 01, 1824) 1824 IN the Circuit Court of Dallas County, Wardlaw declared in case aginst Wren and Glover, that he purchased a negro woman of them, whom on the sale they promised to be sound. Breach, that the slave was not sound, whereby she became of no value to the plaintiff. There were other counts, of indeb. ass. ins. comp. &c. The defendants separately plead non... Most Relevant Cases  
Yancey v. Downer 5 Litt. 8, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (April 07, 1824) 1824 Yancey, in an action of trespass for breaking his close and house, and beating and wounding his slave, so that she was confined and useless for many months, recovered against Downer a verdict and judgment for five hundred and fifty dollars, from which Downer appealed and entered into an appeal bond, but never prosecuted the appeal, and afterwards... Most Relevant Cases  
Young v. Bruces 5 Litt. 324, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 09, 1824) 1824 FROM THE LEWIS CIRCUIT COURT, THE HON. ADAM BEATTY SOLE JUDGE. This was an action of covenant brought by Young upon the following instrument of writing: A person who hires a slave, and covenants to return him at the end of a year, is discharged therefrom, if the slave, without any fault of the hirer, dies in the mean time. On or before the... Most Relevant Cases  
Allen v. Freeland 3 Rand. 170, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (February 17, 1825) 1825 Where slaves are taken under execution, and a third person claims them under a prior sale to him by the debtor, a Court of Equity will not restrain a sale under the execution, unless the slaves seem to possess some peculiar value, which cannot be compensated for in damages. Per CARR and GREEN, Judges. In regard to slave property, a Court of Equity... Most Relevant Cases  
Baldridge v. Walton 1 Mo. 520, Supreme Court of Missouri (May 01, 1825) 1825 This is an action of detinue, commenced in the Circu?? Court of St. Charles county, by Walton, against James and Daniel Baldridge, for certain slaves. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and obtained a verdict in that court. A new trial was granted, and the cause transferred to the Circuit Court of St. Louis county, where the plaintiff... Most Relevant Cases  
Barkley v. Barkley 3 McCord 269, Court of Appeals of Law and Equity of South Carolina (April 01, 1825) 1825 There are two classes of cases in which parolevidence is admissible to explain or carry into effect a deed. One, where the deed refers to any thing, of which it does not itself furnish evidence; as where a person sells all the slaves he owns at A parol evidence may be given to prove the number he had at the place, at the time. Or where a man sells... Most Relevant Cases  
Boice v. Gibbons 8 N.J.L. 324, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1825) 1825 1. In an action on the statute Rev. Laws, 369, sec. 5, for conveying or assisting to convey away a slave, it is not necessary to aver in the declaration that the defendant has been FOUND guilty of conveying away such slave. 2. But it is necessary to aver that the defendant was guilty of conveying away such slave, and if this averment... Most Relevant Cases  
Braker ads. Knight 3 McCord 80, Court of Appeals of Law and Equity of South Carolina (February 01, 1825) 1825 This court will entertain appeals from all orders made at chambers, which are, in their operation, conclusive as to the rights of the parties; as all motions for the benefit of the prison bounds act, &c. A defendant against whom a verdict for damages has been found, for killing. the slave of the plaintiff, is entitled to the benefit of the prison... Most Relevant Cases  
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