Howard v. Snelling
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, in Stewart Superior Court. Tried before Judge . Pericins, at the October Term, 1860. This was an action brought by Harman H. Howard and his wife, Mary Howard, Elizabeth Speer, Harman H. Howard, as administrator of Wm.
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Trover, in Stewart Superior Court. Tried before Judge . Pericins, at the October Term, 1860. This was an action brought by Harman H. Howard and his wife, Mary Howard, Elizabeth Speer, Harman H. Howard, as administrator of Wm. B. Tompkins, deceased, and John Smith, as administrator of John Tompkins and Stephen Tompkins, deceased, against John D. Snelling and 'James W. Snelling, to recover ^amages for the alleged conversion, by the defendants, of ten negro slaves, to which the plaintiffs claim title, to-wit: Harriet, and her children, George, Jacob, Daniel, Morgan, Rhoda, Clarissa, Sophia,…
1Opinion of the Court
JBy the Court.
Jenkins, J.,
delivering the opinion.
On the trial of this case in the Court below, the jury found for the defendant, and the plaintiffs moved for a new trial, on several grounds. The refusal of the Court to grant a new trial is the error complained of, and we proceed to examine the grounds overruled.
1. A bill of sale from Samuel Tompkins (under •whom plaintiffs claim) to the defendant, Snelling, for one of the slaves in dispute, was offered in evidence by the defendant, upon proof that the maker and subscribing witness were both dead, and that the signature of the subscribing…
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