Robinson v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from Cole Circuit Court. 1. The sale of the slave in controversy, at the time, place, and under the circumstances of the ease, by Richard Morris to W. Robinson, the plaintiff below, was a valid sale, and vested the plaintiff with an absolute and unqualified right of property in the said slave, and the court erred in giving to the jury the instruction which it gave upon-the motion of the defendant, Campbell. — 4 Kent’s Com., 138; 12 Wendell, 61; 8 Johnson, 96; 2…
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APPEAL from Cole Circuit Court. 1. The sale of the slave in controversy, at the time, place, and under the circumstances of the ease, by Richard Morris to W. Robinson, the plaintiff below, was a valid sale, and vested the plaintiff with an absolute and unqualified right of property in the said slave, and the court erred in giving to the jury the instruction which it gave upon-the motion of the defendant, Campbell. — 4 Kent’s Com., 138; 12 Wendell, 61; 8 Johnson, 96; 2 Atkins, 317; 2 Johns. Ch. Rep, 97; Story’s Equity; 9 Wendell, 80, 258; 11 Ibid., 106; 7 Cowen, 290; 1 P. Williams, 261. 2. The…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, J.
This was an action of trover, brought- by the plaintiff in error to recover the value of a negro girl named Maria.
It appears from the record, that on the 14th January, 1839, the defendant executed to one Richard Morris a deed for said slave, upon consideration of $366 52 to him paid, upon condition that if the defendant should, on or before the 25th December following, pay to said Morris the said sum of $366 52, then the right and title to said slave was to return and vest in said Campbell.
On the 7th July, 1740, Morris addressed a note to Campbell, informing him that unless the money due on…
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