Brown v. Compton

The petition charges the defendant as fraudulently giving a pass to the plain*426tiff’s slave, wherein she effected her escape. The defendant relied on the general issue principally. The plaintiff had a verdict and judgment, and the defendant appealed.

West’n District. Sept. 1821.

The statement of facts shews the plaintiff's witnesses fully established that he was for several years in possession of the wench named in the petition, as one of his slaves ; that she was taken up in a neighbouring parish, but released on producing a pass given her by the defendant.

M'Micken deposed, that in the year…