Moore v. McKie
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the Madison circuit court. Michael J. McKie obtained judgment in the circuit court, against M. T. Moore, and had his execution levied upon four slaves, which Mrs. Mary E. Moore, the wife of the defendant in the execution, made formal claim to by affidavit and bond and an issue to try the right of property was regularly made up between the parties, and the cause submitted to a jury.
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In error from the Madison circuit court. Michael J. McKie obtained judgment in the circuit court, against M. T. Moore, and had his execution levied upon four slaves, which Mrs. Mary E. Moore, the wife of the defendant in the execution, made formal claim to by affidavit and bond and an issue to try the right of property was regularly made up between the parties, and the cause submitted to a jury. Various witnesses were examined, the substance of whose testimony is declared in the opinion of the court; but during the progress of the trial Mrs. Moore proposed to introduce, to testify in her…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shakkey
The plaintiff in error claimed four negroes, which had been levied on by the sheriff of Madison county, by virtue of an execution against her husband, M. T. Moore. The plaintiff in execution introduced William Smith as a witness, who stated that he had known the negroes from infancy; that they had belonged to John Webb, the father of claimant, previous to the marriage of claimant with M. T. Moore, which took place in Tennessee, in the spring of 1838, and they moved to Mississippi in the fall of that year, bringing with them these slaves with others, which had also belonged to Webb. Moore had…
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