Price v. Sanchez
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Jacksonville. At June Term, 1854, of the Circuit Court for St. Johns County, Venancio Sanchez obtained a judgment by confession and agreement against Cornelius DuPont, for the sum of six hundred and twenty dollars. The said DuPont by his agreement waived all errors, and waived the filing of a preecipe or declaration, and the issue or service of summons.
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This case was decided at Jacksonville. At June Term, 1854, of the Circuit Court for St. Johns County, Venancio Sanchez obtained a judgment by confession and agreement against Cornelius DuPont, for the sum of six hundred and twenty dollars. The said DuPont by his agreement waived all errors, and waived the filing of a preecipe or declaration, and the issue or service of summons. Execution was immediately issued on said judgment and was levied upon a negro boy named John, in the possession of John W. Price. Sabina Price, wife of said John W. Price, formerly the wife of Cornelius DuPont, but…
1Opinion of the CourtBaltzell, C. J.
This was a claim on the part of a married lady, Mrs. Price, asserting right to a negro boy John, levied upon to pay a judgment against her former husband, Cornelius DuPont. Her father, Manuel Crespo, in the year 1847, conveyed this boy John to his daughter by bill of sale regularly executed. It was not recorded until the 27th day of September, 1851, and this constitutes the principal difficulty and objection to its validity, the law of the State, enacted to secure certain rights to women, providing in its second section that “married women may hereafter become seized or possessed of real or…
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