Thompson v. Berry
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. N. W. Battle. The facts of this case, so far as they have relevancy to the opinion, are fully stated therein. Many questions were raised in the assignment of errors and in argument, of which the court takes no cognizance.
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
This suit was instituted in the District Court for McLennan county, by the appellee, John W. Berry, on the 2d ■day of June, A. D. 1856, to recover certain negro slaves from the possession of one Burwell J. Thompson.
Burwell J. Thompson filed his answer to the petition, claiming the slaves as his own property. He alleged in his answer that the slaves in controversy were the separate property of Milly Berry, (the mother of the plaintiff below,) in the State (then Territory) <of Arkansas, as early as the year 1830; that in the year 1831-, *264the said Milly Berry removed with the said slaves into the…
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