Urie v. Johnston
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common-Pleas of Cumberland county, Sampson Johnston the plaintiff, below brought indebetatis assumpsit for work, labor and services against Urie, and recovered a verdict for three hundred and seventy dollars.
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IN ERROR. Error to the Court of Common-Pleas of Cumberland county, Sampson Johnston the plaintiff, below brought indebetatis assumpsit for work, labor and services against Urie, and recovered a verdict for three hundred and seventy dollars. Johnston was the son of a negro woman, who being the child of a slave, was registered and held to service until she arrived at the age of twenty-eight, under the act for the gradual abolition of slavery. ■’ Johnston himself was registered under the act, and claimed as a servant until twenty-eight. He was stated in the registry to have been born on the 8th…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The Defendant in error is a negro, and the son qf a negro woman who was born and regularly registered a Penn*220sylvania servant until the age of twenty-eight years; and she was the daughter of a regularly registered Pennsylvania slave for. life. The defendant in error was born on the 8th of July 1800, during the servitude of his mother, and registered by her master, in eight days after his birth. He was held and considered asa servant under the abolition act of the 1st of March 1780, and as such had been transferred and sold, two or three…
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- Nickerson v. HowardNew York Supreme Court · 1821
- Irvine v. HanlinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1823
- Peter v. SteelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1801
- Stiles v. NellySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1823