Plummer v. Plummer
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Chancery Court of Adams county. Hon. Stanhope Posey, chancellor. The plaintiff in error filed his bill in the court below, in which he alleged that, in 1843, he purchased with his own means a certain slave Louisa, and took a title to her in his own name.
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Error to the Chancery Court of Adams county. Hon. Stanhope Posey, chancellor. The plaintiff in error filed his bill in the court below, in which he alleged that, in 1843, he purchased with his own means a certain slave Louisa, and took a title to her in his own name. That said slave from that time continued and remained in his possession, and the possession and control of his family, until January, A. I). 1855, and during that period she had issue four children, whose names and ages are set out in the bill. That said Louisa was a valuable house-serva.nt, and by her labor contributed greatly,…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
The object of the bill in this case is to recover certain slaves, alleged to be the property of complainant, and in the possession of the defendant Odell.
The hill alleges that complainant purchased the slave Louisa in the year 1843, and that the other slaves in controversy are the children of Louisa, born in the possession of complainant, and that said negroes have remained in his possession ever since, until January or February, 1855; that in the year 1849, complainant, with the consent and approbation of bis wife (the defendant, Margaret Plummer), and for the purpose of bettering bis…
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