Phillips v. McGrew
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the County Court of Sumter. Before his honor G. B. Frierson. This was an action of detinue at the suit of the defendant in error for the recovery of two female slaves, named'Melissa and Eliza. The cause being submitted to a jury, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, assessing the value of the slaves and damages for their detention severally, and judgment was thereon rendered.
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Writ of Error to the County Court of Sumter. Before his honor G. B. Frierson. This was an action of detinue at the suit of the defendant in error for the recovery of two female slaves, named'Melissa and Eliza. The cause being submitted to a jury, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, assessing the value of the slaves and damages for their detention severally, and judgment was thereon rendered. From a bill of exceptions sealed at the defendant’s instance, it appears that the slaves in controversy were at oue time the property of William McGrew, deceased, and were distributed to his son, W.…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
No question has been made at the bar as to the admissibility of the transcript from the records of the orphans’ court of Washington. It appears that after it was admitted as evidence, the plaintiff proved that the slaves in question were once the property of W. P. McGrew; and this was not denied by the defendants, or any testimony adduced by them to disprove it. If therefore the transcript should have been excluded, a question which need not be considered, its admission was rendered perfectly harmless, by evidence subsequently adduced and in effect admitted to be true. We pass then from this…
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