Clayton v. Brown
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover, etc., in Muscogee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Worrill, May Term, 1859. This was an action for a negro man, Charley, brought by Dempsey Brown against Philip A. Clayton. For a portion of the facts, see 17 Ga. Rep., 217, the case having before been to the Supreme Court.
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Trover, etc., in Muscogee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Worrill, May Term, 1859. This was an action for a negro man, Charley, brought by Dempsey Brown against Philip A. Clayton. For a portion of the facts, see 17 Ga. Rep., 217, the case having before been to the Supreme Court. At the last trial in the Court below, the jury found a second time for the plaintiff; and counsel for defendant moved for a new trial on the following grounds: 1st. Because the Court erred in rejecting the portion of the answer of Clayton which went to prove the value of the negro. 2d. Because the Court erred in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lyon, J.,
delivering the opinion.
■ Interrogatories were exhibited to the plaintiff in error by the defendant, under the Act to authorize and compel discoveries at common law, December 17, 1847, to compel him to discover to whom he had hired the negro, and the amounts he had received for the negro. Clayton, in his answers, stated what he considered the negro to be worth, and this *494part of the answers the plaintiff refused to read as evidence, and when the defendant offered to read it as evidence, plaintiff objected, and the Court sustained the objection. This is the first ground of…
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