Crane v. Allen

The defendant in the above cause, determined by this court in May last, asks for a supersedeas to stay a writ of possession which issued from the District Court upon the judgment of this court remanded for execu*497tion. He bases his application upon the Art. 629 C. P. and upon the authority of the cases of Cox’s Executors v. Thomas, 11 L., 867, and Lovelace v. Taylor, 6 Rob., 92.

His affidavit avers that the plaintiff in whose favor the writ of possession issued, still keeps in his possession, in the State of Mississippi, seven of the slaves which this court, by its decree aforesaid, intended he…