Brown v. Goolsby
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Holly Springs. Hon. James F. Trotter, vice-chancellor. Complainants have established beyond controversy their title to the slave Dave. In the court below, this was conceded by defendants, and the Statute of Limitations alone was relied on by them, and on this defence the court made its decree dismissing the bill.
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Appeal from the District Chancery Court at Holly Springs. Hon. James F. Trotter, vice-chancellor. Complainants have established beyond controversy their title to the slave Dave. In the court below, this was conceded by defendants, and the Statute of Limitations alone was relied on by them, and on this defence the court made its decree dismissing the bill. The original bill was filed in the Chancery Court at Holly Springs against Goolsby alone, alleging complainants’ title to and Goolsby’s possession of the slave. Complainants had their bill drawn up, and made an affidavit thereto, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This bill was filed by the appellants on the 25th November, 1854, in the District Chancery Court of Holly Springs, to recover possession of a slave, the property of the appellants, alleged to be in the possession of the appellee Goolsby, and hire for the detention.
The bill alleges, in substance, that the mother of the appellants, having a life estate in the slave in the State of North Carolina, loaned the slave to one Rowers in that State, who brought him to this State, and fraudulently sold him to one Watson, who sold him subsequently to Goolsby. That the appellants’ mother died in the…
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