Milly v. Smith

M’Girk, C. L,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an action on the part of Milly for freedom, under the ordinance of Congress of 1787, for the government of the North Western Territory. There was a. verdict and j'udgment against the plaintiff in the Court Below. The facts of the casoappear to be, as found by a special verdict, that one David Shipman, then residing in-the State of Kentucky, on the 17th of October, 1826, made a deed to Smith, the-defendant in error, by which Shipman, among other things, granted, bargained and sold the plaintiff, Milly, as a slave to Smith, to have and to…