In re Ralph
Supreme Court of Iowa
Ralph, being within this territory, was claimed by Montgomery, a resident of the State of Missouri, as his slave, and, by virtue of a precept from a Justice of the Peace, under the Act of the Legislative Assembly of Iowa, (satisfactory proof, under the Act, having been made,, to such Justice', that Ralph was the property of the claimant) tile Sheriff of Du Buque county delivered the ftegro into the custody and possession of the claimant, who took him on board a steamboat,…
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Ralph, being within this territory, was claimed by Montgomery, a resident of the State of Missouri, as his slave, and, by virtue of a precept from a Justice of the Peace, under the Act of the Legislative Assembly of Iowa, (satisfactory proof, under the Act, having been made,, to such Justice', that Ralph was the property of the claimant) tile Sheriff of Du Buque county delivered the ftegro into the custody and possession of the claimant, who took him on board a steamboat, bound for Missouri, and delivered him to the master of the boat, to transport him to Missouri, who confined him in the…
1Opinion of the Court
BY THE COTJET.
This case does not come before us in any of the ordinary methods of application to an appellate Court, so that it is, perhaps, not strictly regular for us to entertain jurisdiction of it at all. As, however, it involves an important question, which may, ere long, if unsettled, become an exciting one, and as it is by the mutual assent and request of all the parties interested, we concluded to listen to the argument, and make a decision in the case without intending it as a precedent for the future practice of this Court.
The petitioner, a colored man, who was claimed as a slave…
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