Rusk v. Sowerwine

Appeal from Baltimore County Court. Replevin for a slave. The appellant was the plaintiff below. General issue atid limitations were pleaded. ’ 1. The plaintiff offered evidence, that John Bailey, being in his life-time possessed of a negro woman named Hannah, and being indebted to Daniel Dulany, deceased, to secure the debt, on the 12th of April 1769 executed a mortgage to Dulany of said negro slave, and other property, which was duly acknowledged and recorded, and was offered in evidence. And to prove that the slave in controversy was a descendant from Hannah, the plaintiff offered as a…