McAlpin v. Jones

The plaintiff, alleging himself to be receiver of all the effects, real and personal, of the estate of Horace Carpenter & Go., in Mississippi, by appointment of the Chancery Court of that State, sued the defendants in the parish of Ouachita, for four negroes, which he averred wore illegally in their possession, and had been stolen from his possession as receiver, in Washington county, Mississippi, they being the property of the estate of Horace Oa/rpen-ter & Go.

Some of the negroes were sequestered and bonded by the defendants.

The defendant, Burwell H. Jones, excepted to the suit, on the…