Reed v. Brashers
Supreme Court of Alabama
QUESTION IN THIS CASE. As to proof of property to the chattel converted, in trover. Trover by the plaintiff in e,rror, in Shelby Circuit Court. Tint plaintiff-declared against lhe defendants, for the conversion of a female slave: and the plea of the general issue was relied on.
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QUESTION IN THIS CASE. As to proof of property to the chattel converted, in trover. Trover by the plaintiff in e,rror, in Shelby Circuit Court. Tint plaintiff-declared against lhe defendants, for the conversion of a female slave: and the plea of the general issue was relied on. T.o prove the issue on his part, the plaintiff proposed to introduce as ei idence of his right of property, in the slave, a record, (of file in that Court,) of a suit determined in de-tinue between the said plaintiff, as defendant, and Thomas H. Brasher, (one of lhe present defendants) as plaintiff; and in which the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
The plaintiff here, (who was plain-' tiff below,) brought, his action of trover, in the Circuit Court of Shelby; against the defendants, to recover damages, for the conversion, by them', of a female slave, named Eliza. On the trial, he proposed to read to the jury, for the purpose of shewing his right to recover, a record of the proceedings in an action of detinue, prosecuted by Thomas H. Brasher, against the plaintiff, (theretofore determined, in the same Court,) for the recovery of a female slave, named- Eliza, about the same age- of the'one which the defendants are charged with having con…
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