Turner v. Thrower
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ill error to tlie Circuit Court of Mobile county. This was an action of detinue by Turner, as next friend, in the Circuit Court of Mobile county, for the recovery of a slave. The plea was non detinet; and under it, by the verdict of a jury, judgment was rendered for the defendant.
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Ill error to tlie Circuit Court of Mobile county. This was an action of detinue by Turner, as next friend, in the Circuit Court of Mobile county, for the recovery of a slave. The plea was non detinet; and under it, by the verdict of a jury, judgment was rendered for the defendant. On the trial, a bill of exceptions was taken, which disclosed the following facts, to wit; The plaintiff offered evidence, conducing to prove title in James Turner, and possession by defendant, his value, the value of his services, and a demand, and refusal. The defendant sat up title, under the sale of the slave,…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, C. J.
The action in this case was detinue for a slave.
Upon the trial of the issue between the parties, in the Circuit Court of Mobile county, the plaintiff offered evidence, which conduced to prove that he had the right of property in the slave. The defendant claimed the property in the slave, under a sale made by the sheriff of Mobile county. In support of his claim, he proved that the slave was legally committed to the jail of Mobile county, on the thirteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three : that the first publication of the commitment was .made, by the sheriff, in the Mobile…
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