Buel v. Pumphrey
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an action of trover, brought by the appellee against the appellant, to recover the value of a negro slave, Ann, alleged to be the property of the plaintiff. The plea was non cul. Exception.
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Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an action of trover, brought by the appellee against the appellant, to recover the value of a negro slave, Ann, alleged to be the property of the plaintiff. The plea was non cul. Exception. The plaintiff having proved title to the negro in question, further proved by Connell, a competent witness, that in August 1847, witness went to the residence of defendant, as the agent of, and with an order (which witness since destroyed) from the plaintiff to deliver up to witness the negro woman in controversy and her child; that defendant on that…
1Opinion of the Court
Le .Grand,-C; J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action of trover instituted to recover the value of *267a negro woman. The plaintiff, after having proved property-in the woman, proved that his agent, in August 1847, went to the residence of the defendant with an order demanding that the woman should be delivered to him as agent of the plaintiff; that the defendant said at first, that the plaintiff had the right to take her away at any time, but afterwards (he in the meantime having had a conversation with his wife,) refused to deliver her up, saying, that if he, the “defendant did…
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