McKee's Administrators v. McKee's Administrators
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince Georges County. Trover, brought on the 14th of April 1857, by the appellees against the appellants, to recover the value of sundry negro slaves. The case was docketed by consent for the purpose of trying title to the negroes in controversy. Pleas, non cul. and limitations.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince Georges County. Trover, brought on the 14th of April 1857, by the appellees against the appellants, to recover the value of sundry negro slaves. The case was docketed by consent for the purpose of trying title to the negroes in controversy. Pleas, non cul. and limitations. At the trial, a single exception was taken by the defend ants to the ruling of the court below, (Crain, J.,) which, with the facts of the case, is fully stated in the opinion of this court. The verdict aud judgment were in favor of the plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtGoldsuorough, J.
This was an action of trover, instituted in the Circuit court for Prince Georges county, by the administrators of Alexander McKee against the administrators of his wife, Margaret McKee, who died in 1851, to recover the value of a number of negroes, which the plaintiffs claimed to have been the property of their intestate.
For the purpose of showing title in their intestate, the plaintiffs proved, that Margaret, the defendants’ intestate, died in the year 1851; and her husband, Alexander, the plaintiffs’ intestate, survived her and died in 1855; and then proved, by a competent witness, that for…
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