Barringtons v. Logan's Administrators

This is an agreed case, in which the only question presented, is the liberty or slavery of the appellants — Winney Barrington, Julian Barrington, and Henry Barrington; who are the children of Dinah Barrington, a woman of colour, who was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in March, ISO.O, but was afterwards brought to Kentucky, where, before she was twenty eight years old, she gave birth, to the appellants.

' This question depends altogether on another question ; that is, whether Dinah, the mother, was a free woman, or a slave, when the appellants were, each of them, born ; or whether, as the…