Bell v. English
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
[At law. Application for a writ of habeas corpus to compel James English to bring up Andrew Bell. The return of a writ of habeas corpus, to bring up a colored boy, was, that he was bound as apprentice to Mr. English, by the orphans’ court of Alexandria county, to learn the business of a house-servant.
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[At law. Application for a writ of habeas corpus to compel James English to bring up Andrew Bell. The return of a writ of habeas corpus, to bring up a colored boy, was, that he was bound as apprentice to Mr. English, by the orphans’ court of Alexandria county, to learn the business of a house-servant. The evidence of this binding was a copy of the record of the orphans’ court, in these words:— “Orphans’ Court, Alexandria County, October Term, 1S32. Andrew Bell, a free orpha# boy of color, who will be thirteen years old on the 25th of November next, is, by the court, bound an apprentice to…
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT
(nem. con.) refused to discharge the boy, being of opinion that the orphans’ court had jurisdiction to bind out orphan children; and that the binding was in the usual form in which that court exercised its jurisdiction. See Hines v. Hewitt, [Case No. 6,520.]
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