Scott v. Haddock
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Starke, August Term, 1851. The bill charges, that Willis S. Scott was appointed’guardian of JohnF. and Cynthia Prosser, minors of John Prosser, in the year 1821. His first return was made in 1822, in which he charges himself with a negro boy named Harry, the subject of the suit, and also for his hire. For ten consecutive years, he continued in his returns to account for the hire of the boy.
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In Equity, in Crawford Superior Court. Tried before Judge Starke, August Term, 1851. The bill charges, that Willis S. Scott was appointed’guardian of JohnF. and Cynthia Prosser, minors of John Prosser, in the year 1821. His first return was made in 1822, in which he charges himself with a negro boy named Harry, the subject of the suit, and also for his hire. For ten consecutive years, he continued in his returns to account for the hire of the boy. His last return was made in 1831. Cynthia Prosser was born some time in the year 1816, and was married to John Haddock in 1835. On the 5th of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The first assignment of error which we shall notice, is the rejection by the Court below, of the bill of sale offered by the defendant, to show that the slave, Harry, never was the property of the orphans of John Prosser, but the property of Willis S. Scott, acquired by virtue of his intermarriage with the mother of Mrs. Haddock, one of the complainants. The record shows, that Willis S. Scott was appointed guardian of John F. and Cynthia Prosser, orphan children óf John Prosser, deceased, by the Court of Ordinary of Jones County, in the year…
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