Dearman v. Radcliffe

The only question of law arising in this case, is presented by a bill of exceptions, the facts recited in which are almost identical with those of Dearman v. Dearman, at the last term. So far as it is necessary to notice them, they may be thus condensed. In the year 1830, Jonathan Dearman, then a citizen of Florida, was desirous of removing to Alabama, with his family, but apprehensive if he did so, with certain slaves as ostensibly his property, they would be subjected to the payment of some debts, which he had been owing in Mississippi, for a long time. To prevent such a result, his son…