Hopkins v. Wright
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Red River. The Reporter did not find the transcript in the Clerk’s Office in this case.
1Opinion of the Court
Hemphill, Ch. J.
Augustus Hopkins and Mary K. Hopkins, his wife, citizens of Virginia, in their original petition, sue Travis GL" Wright and James D. Wortham for the recovery of about forty slaves, which they allege the said Mary was possessed of as her own property within two years prior to the institution of the suit; that the defendants took possession of them on the first day of August, 1853, and refused to deliver them to the plaintiffs, though well aware that they are the property of the plaintiff Mary. The value of the use of said slaves is alleged, and judgment prayed for the negroes…
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