AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Topp V. White 59 Tenn. 165, Supreme Court of Tennessee (April 01, 1873) On the 22d of February, 1860, the complainant, Robertson Topp, and one Isaac N. Davis, entered into a contract, by which the latter sold to the former a plantation, with the slaves and personal property thereon, in Mississippi. The following is the material part of the written agreement made at the time: This memorandum and contract, made... 1873 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Allen V. Allen 8 Bush 490, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (January 04, 1872) This is a controversy between two colored persons, formerly slaves, who while in that condition were married, and lived during their bondage in the relation of husband and wife, according to the recognized custom of negro slaves in Kentucky; but who, on becoming free, did not, by complying with the statute in relation to the marriage of such... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Becht V. Martin 37 Tex. 719, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1872) In 1840 Peter Martin was the acknowledged slave of Wiley Martin. This slave had come to the country with his master before the Revolution; and it would seem he had endeared himself to his master, by fidelity and good conduct, to such a degree that his master, being a member of the Texas Congress, obtained a special act, which was approved by... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Bonds V. Foster 36 Tex. 68, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1872) 1. F., the owner of a female slave, lived in concubinage with her in Louisiana, whence, in 1847, he took her and her children to Ohio, where he manumitted them by deed. He left them in Ohio for about four years, and supported them during the time, returning there himself about once in each year, and on these occasions staying with the family and... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Cowan V. Stamps 46 Miss. 435, Supreme Court of Mississippi (April 01, 1872) 1. WILL CAPACITY OF NEGROES TO TAKE UNDER IT CASE UNDER CONSIDERATION AND CONCLUSIONS.C. made his will in 1850, by which he directed that all his slaves be sent to Africa, there to become free; and that, for this purpose, his executors should take charge of the slaves and hire them out until a sufficiency was realized to pay... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Dancey V. Sugg 46 Miss. 606, Supreme Court of Mississippi (April 01, 1872) 1. EVIDENCE EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENT PROOF OF SIGNATURE OF ONE OF TWO MAKERS SUFFICIENT TO ADMIT IT. Proof of the signature of one of two makers of a bill of sale of a slave is sufficient proof of its execution to entitle it to be read in evidence. 2. WHERE A PROMISSORY NOTE WAS GIVEN TO LIFT A DRAFT, FAILURE OF CONSIDERATION... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Henderlite V. Thurman 22 Gratt. 466, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (June 01, 1872) 1. A bond given in October 1863, for the price of slaves purchased at a judicial sale, is valid and binding; and may be enforced after the war, and after the adoption of the 13th amendment to the constitution. 2. Though judgments have been recovered upon bonds given for purchases at a judicial sale, made in October 1863, without any question as to... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Kelso V. Vance 61 Tenn. 334, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1872) The original bills in this case are filed by a number of persons who purchased slaves at a sale made by Jacob Vance and Hugh Eddins, who were administrators of S. G. Eddins, deceased. Said S. G. Eddins died in, perhaps, the latter part of 1861. The object of the bills is to enjoin suits brought by Vance and Eddins on the notes given for the negroes... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Lyons V. Stephens 45 Ga. 141, Supreme Court of Georgia (January 01, 1872) (BY TWO JUDGES.) 1. Where S. is sued on a warranty of the soundness of a negro, and in settlement of the case gives his promissory note for half the amount for which he originally sold the negro, such note is not a debt, the consideration of which was a slave. 2. Where S. is induced to give his note to L. in settlement of a... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Mitchell V. Mcelvin 45 Ga. 558, Supreme Court of Georgia (January 01, 1872) 1. A colored child, born before the 9th day of March, 1866, within what was regarded as a state of wedlock between its parents, while slaves, and who is acknowledged by its father, is the legitimate child of both parents. If the parents separated before that date and the child remained with the mother, she is entitled to the control of it during... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Morris V. Ranney 37 Tex. 124, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1872) 1. The rulings in the Emancipation Cases, reported in 31 Texas, 504 et seq., respecting the date at which slavery was abolished in Texas, are questioned in this case. 2. This suit was instituted upon a promissory note given for services of negroes, rendered after the proclamation of emancipation. Held, that the question as to whether... 1872 Cases Yes  
  People ex Rel. Hedgman V. Board of Registration of Detroit, First Ward 26 Mich. 51, Supreme Court of Michigan (October 23, 1872) This is an application for a mandamus to compel the respondents to register the relator as a voter. The facts are, that his parents were persons of African blood, born in Virginia, and held there as slaves; that they left there and went to Canada in 1834, where from that time they resided, and where the father still resides; that the relator was... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Rea V. Twilley 35 Md. 409, Court of Appeals of Maryland (March 18, 1872) On the 24th day of February, 1857, John A. Scott made his last will and testament, and after the execution of the same, purchased a tract of land called Darly's Addition Enlarged, containing four hundred and fifty acres. The question is, whether this subsequently acquired tract of land is devised in the will, or whether it descends to the... 1872 Cases Yes  
  Redwine V. Glover 45 Ga. 134, Supreme Court of Georgia (January 01, 1872) (BY TWO JUDGES.) 1. Redwine and his wife obtained a decree, in 1859, against Shrine, as administrator upon the estate of the wife's father, for $6,500, and that certain negroes of the estate be sold, and one half the proceeds of such sale be paid over to the complainants, which decree was afterwards satisfied, and so entered on the minutes... 1872 Cases Yes  
  State V. Duffy 7 Nev. 342, Supreme Court of Nevada (January 01, 1872) Relator asks a mandamus compelling defendants to admit him into the public school of which they are trustees. They object that the remedy sought should not be granted, first: because they have not the power to admit, nor to deny admission; second: because the applicant is a negro. The power to admit to the public schools is not in words conferred... 1872 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Andrews V. Page 50 Tenn. 653, Supreme Court of Tennessee (February 18, 1871) On the 3rd day of December, 1867, Henry Page, a free man of color, bought of complainant three slaves, said to be his wife and two children, at the price of $3,200, and took a bill of sale from complainant. Henry paid part of the purchase money, and was to pay the residue in one, two and three years; and having absconded privately and left the... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Berry V. Alsop 45 Miss. 1, Supreme Court of Mississippi (April 01, 1871) 1. SLAVES EMANCIPATION REMOVAL TO ANOTHER STATE CAPABLE OF TAKING PROPERTY HERE. The owner of slaves in this state might voluntarily take them to a state which did not tolerate slavery, and there emancipate and leave them, and this contravened neither the law nor policy of this state, but conferred freedom on the... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Calloway V. Hamby 65 N.C. 631, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1871) On the 6th of September, 1863, or 1864, (the complaint and answer say 1863, and the case agreed says 1864, but the precise date is not material,) Rebecca Hamby was possessed of certain slaves for her life, and her children, the defendants, were entitled absolutely after her death. Eli C. Hamby, one of the remaindermen, was an infant. On that day... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Collins V. Collins 44 Ga. 128, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1871) 1. When in 1863, A sold to B two negro slaves for $5,000 00, payable in pork at $1 00 per pound and in cotton at fifty cents per pound, but no note was taken, and soon after $2,000 00 was paid in pork according to the contract, and afterwards, A having died, his executors, after the 1st June, 1865, adjusted the debt with B, fixing the amount due at... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Crisp V. Miller 52 Tenn. 697, Supreme Court of Tennessee (April 01, 1871) Complainants allege that defendant G. W. Miller is indebted to them in the sum of $1,500. That on the 2d of May, 1861, Miller gave into the possession of complainants a negro man slave as a pledge of security to secure the payment of the said debt, with power to sell the same for not less than $1,100, and apply the proceeds toward said debt. That... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Gray V. Cooper 65 N.C. 183, Supreme Court of North Carolina (January 01, 1871) This is an action to recover of the defendant the value of the services of certain slaves belonging to the plaintiff which it is alleged were hired by the plaintiff to the intestate of the defendant. The action was commenced soon after the adoption of the Code of Civil Procedure, but it is in the old form of an action of debt, there is no complaint... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Hardin V. Williams 52 Tenn. 385, Supreme Court of Tennessee (April 01, 1871) The Court is of opinion that there is error in the judgment of the Circuit Court dismissing the petition in this case for the writs of certiorari and supersedeas. The petitioner was the surety of one William R. Watkins upon a promissory note for $200, of date the 1st January, 1861, due twelve months after that date, for the hire of a negro slave,... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Jameson V. Mccoy 52 Tenn. 108, Supreme Court of Tennessee (May 24, 1871) About the year 1842 John Ward, being then a citizen of North Carolina, determined to remove to Tennessee. He was the owner of a woman slave named Kissee, who had for her husband a man slave named Caesar, who belonged to an uncle of Ward, living in the neighborhood. To avoid separating Kissee and her children from Caesar, Ward purchased him, and at... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Johnson V. Johnson 49 Tenn. 521, Supreme Court of Tennessee (January 18, 1871) In December, 1862, Lucy Johnson and others filed their bill in the County Court at Fayetteville, against the other heirs and distributees of Agnes Johnson, deceased, for the purpose of procuring the sale of a number of slaves, which had belonged to Agnes Johnson, deceased. The object of the sale was, that the proceeds might be partitioned amongst... 1871 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Lonas V. State 50 Tenn. 287, Supreme Court of Tennessee (November 01, 1871) This case involves the grave question, whether a white person and a negro may lawfully intermarry, or cohabit, as man and wife, in this State. The prisoner is a negro, and was indicted, tried and convicted, of the offense of cohabiting, as man and wife, with one Rebecca Teaster, a white woman, on and before the 10th of January, 1871, in the county... 1871 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Nelson V. Stamper 43 Ga. 332, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1871) When a defendant pleaded that the consideration of the note sued on was negro slaves, and the Court examined a witness as to that fact, and dismissed the case without submitting it to the jury: Held, That this was error. Slave debts. Practice. Before Judge HOWELL. Terrell Superior Court. March Term, 1871. The facts of this case are in the opinion.... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Osborn V. Nicholson 80 U.S. 654, Supreme Court of the United States (December 01, 1871) In error to the Circuit Court for the District of Arkansas. The case was argued on both sides interestingly, and with ability and learning. A person in Arkansas, one of the late slaveholding States, for a valuable consideration, passed in March, 1861, before the rebellion had broken out, sold a negro slave which he then had, warranting the... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Planters' Bank of Tennessee V. Vandyck 51 Tenn. 617, Supreme Court of Tennessee (May 13, 1871) In 1860, in the Circuit Court of Henry county, complainant recovered a judgment against J. H. Vandyck, Jesse A. Brown and Preston G. Haynes, for about eight thousand dollars. After the rendition of the judgment, and on 20th August, 1860, Vandyck, who was principal, conveyed in trust to Elijah Etheridge, several slaves and a tract of land, to... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Prather V. Mcdowell 8 Bush 46, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 19, 1871) On the 9th of May, 1839, James S. Prather made and executed to William Prather, C. M. Way, and John Joyes a deed of trust conveying to them certain real property situated in the city of Louisville and its vicinity, also all his household and kitchen furniture and a negro slave, and assigning to them notes and choses in action amounting in the... 1871 Cases Yes  
  Sewell V. Morgan 49 Tenn. 672, Supreme Court of Tennessee (February 01, 1871) The complainant alleges that one John L. Dearmon, on the 30th of May, 1865, made a deed of trust, by which he conveyed to one A. M. Savage, a dwelling house and lot in the town of Smithville, together with some negro slaves, various other articles of personal property, and a tract of land, known as the Round Bottom tract, a... 1871 Cases Yes  
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