Warren v. Dickerson
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Houston County. The substantial facts of this case are as follows: Warren and wife arrived in Texas in the summer or autumn of 1840, bringing with them the slave in controversy; that Warren, the husband, claimed and exercised ownership over the slave, and that nothing was ever heard of the separate right of the wife to the slave until about the time that Warren sold the slave to Tutt, and then only a rumor that the slave belonged to Mrs. Warren; but not a…
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— Appeal from Houston County. The substantial facts of this case are as follows: Warren and wife arrived in Texas in the summer or autumn of 1840, bringing with them the slave in controversy; that Warren, the husband, claimed and exercised ownership over the slave, and that nothing was ever heard of the separate right of the wife to the slave until about the time that Warren sold the slave to Tutt, and then only a rumor that the slave belonged to Mrs. Warren; but not a single witness testified that this rumor was in circulation until after the purchase had been made. One of • the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lipscomb
From the plaintiff’s claim of title she does not stand in a more favorable position than her father would, were he alive, and contesting the validity of the purchase of tbe slave by Tutt from Warren, the husband. And it will not admit of controversy, that if he had been so negligent of his rights as to permit his property loaned by him to be brought off from Mississippi to Texas, without having it accompanied by notice of his ownership, directly or constructively, by having it recorded in the place to where the property had been conveyed, his right would not stand against the intervening…
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