Hagan v. Tobin

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

A fieri facias issued from the office of the clerk of the Union Circuit Court, in favor of Ben Tobin against Thomas Hagan, for five hundred dollars, with interest from the 27th day of June, 1823, and costs, and was levied by the Sheriff of Union county, on a negro woman and child.

Leonard Hagan, claiming the slaves as his property, and desiring to have a jury summoned to try his right, *265in conjunction with Thomas Hagan, executed bond for their delivery at the court house in Morganfield on a day fixed — it being court day. The sheriff, after the day,…