Little's administrator v. Chauvin

This was an action of trover, commenced in the Circuit Court by Little’s admin* istrator, who is appellee, against Chauvin, who is appellant, for the conversion of a female slave, named Sophia. The defendant pleaded not guilty. There was Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which an appeal was prayed to this Court.

The material facts to be collected from the evidence preserved in the record, are, concisely, that Sophia was the daughter of one Celeste, who, 35 or 40 years before the time of trial in the Circuit Court, was in the possession 'of one Joseph Tayon, and shortly thereafter,…