Charles v. . Elliott

The plaintiff showed that in January, 1839, he demanded the slave of the defendant, who refused to deliver him; that in March following, the plaintiff administered on the estate of Thomas Morris (who had been dead for some years), and immediately thereafter, as Morris's administrator, sued out this writ. It appeared that the slave in question was the property of his intestate, Thomas Morris; that the defendant and one David White were trustees of a Quaker society, and that the (607) slave had been claimed by the defendant as the property of the society, under a deed given by Thomas Morris,…