Hooper v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before the Hon. Ezeiciel PioiceNS. Trial op the right op property in slaves, between Geo. D. Hooper, plaintiff in attachment, and Loxla Edwards, claimant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before the Hon. Ezeiciel PioiceNS. Trial op the right op property in slaves, between Geo. D. Hooper, plaintiff in attachment, and Loxla Edwards, claimant. It appears that the said Edwards was the deputy sheriff of Russell county in 1848-9, and lived within one mile of the defendant in attachment, Bryant S. Mangham, from whom he had hired some negroes for the year 1848, and that he had in his hands, as deputy sheriff, several executions against Mangham, one of which (in favor of one Crews) had been indulged j that on the night of the 25th of…
1Opinion of the Court
LIGON, J. —
When this case was before this court at a former term (18 Ala. 280), it was held, that the declarations *531and statements of Mangham were not admissible to prove the consideration of the purchase of the slaves in controversy-: and that the contract, being made on Sunday, was void, unless the claimant could show such facts to exist as would satisfy the jury that a necessity existed for him to protect himself from loss by making the contract on that day.
The evidence objected to in that case, and which was improperly admitted in the court below, was composed of the declarations of the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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