Knight v. Bell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Errok to the Circuit Court of Sumter. Tried before the Hon. R. W. HUNTINGTON. Detinue by Bell as administrator of Peter Knigbt, deceased, against Phereby Knigbt, for certain slaves.
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Errok to the Circuit Court of Sumter. Tried before the Hon. R. W. HUNTINGTON. Detinue by Bell as administrator of Peter Knigbt, deceased, against Phereby Knigbt, for certain slaves. On the trial below, Bell, the plaintiff, proved that he was administrator of Peter Knight, deceased, and that his intestate had been in possession of the slave Cynthia in this State ever since the year 1888, and that he died in possession of her and the other slaves in controversy, who were her children; that Knight, while in possession of Cynthia, called her his, and said she was liable for bis debts: that in J…
1Opinion of the Court
PHELAN, J.'
The evidence introduced on the part of Mrs. Knight in the trial below, conduced to prove, that the slave Cynthia had been loaned to her about the year 1833, when she and her husband were about leaving North Carolina to come to Alabama, for the benefit of her and her children, ox that the loan was to her and her children; and that her husband had always held them in that way.
This loan conferred^ upon Peter Knight, her husband, whatever interest she acquired by it, because it does not appear that the loan, whether to herself alone or collectively with her children, was in any manner…
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