Baldwin v. McKay
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Madison county. Hon. J. A. P. Campbell, judge McKay brought an action of trover against plaintiffs in error to recover six bales of cotton which they had illegally converted to their own use-. McKay claimed title by purchase from Mrs. Boles in 1863. After the surrender in 1865, Mrs. Boles, being-advised by her son-in-law, Jno. S. Robinson, that she could hold the cotton, gave him the management of it.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Madison county. Hon. J. A. P. Campbell, judge McKay brought an action of trover against plaintiffs in error to recover six bales of cotton which they had illegally converted to their own use-. McKay claimed title by purchase from Mrs. Boles in 1863. After the surrender in 1865, Mrs. Boles, being-advised by her son-in-law, Jno. S. Robinson, that she could hold the cotton, gave him the management of it. Robinson turned the cotton over to E. M. Baldwin and O. G. Baldwin for the purpose of paying a certain note of Robinson’s to one Powell, and upon which the…
1Opinion of the CourtHandt, C.J.
This was an action of trover, brought by the defendant in error, to recover the value of six bales of cotton weighing four hundred and fifty pounds each, alleged to have been purchased by him from one Eliza Boles in October, or November, 1863 ; to which the defendants below pleaded the general issue and several special pleas.
On the trial below, the plaintiff introduced as a witness Samuel Melton, who was asked by the plaintiff whether the plaintiff owned cotton - on the premises of Eliza Boles; and thereupon the defendants objected to the witness answering the question, and asked him if the…
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