Gully v. Hull
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error to the Circuit Court of Kemper county. Hon. John Watts, judge. The evidence. is sufficiently set out in the ppinion of the court, and was substantially the same on the first trial in this court as in the present, except that in the present the defendant below introduced as a part of his evidence to the jury, the mortgages to Watts and Binns, referred to in the opinion. To the introduction of which the plaintiff excepted.
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In error to the Circuit Court of Kemper county. Hon. John Watts, judge. The evidence. is sufficiently set out in the ppinion of the court, and was substantially the same on the first trial in this court as in the present, except that in the present the defendant below introduced as a part of his evidence to the jury, the mortgages to Watts and Binns, referred to in the opinion. To the introduction of which the plaintiff excepted. The instructions on behalf of plaintiff which were refused by the Circuit Court are as follows: “If J. B. Shines, whilst in failing circumstances in North Carolina,…
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
This case has been heretofore before this court, on which occasion a judgment rendered against the intestate of the present plaintiff in error, who was the plaintiff below, was reversed, and a new trial awarded.. On the second trial, judgment was also rendered for the defendant below, and the plaintiff brings the case here again.
The action was replevin, to recover certain slaves in the possession of the defendant. In support of the plaintiff’s title, he offered the following evidence: 1st. A deed of loan, executed by him to his daughter Rebecca, wife of James B. Shines, for the slaves,…
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