Hynson v. Terry
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Ai’yeal from Whitt, Circuit Court. -This was an action of detinue, instituted in the Pulaski Circuit-Court, by Hynson against Terry, for a negro boy named Daniel, and transferred to White Circuit Court, when White county was created. Terry pleaded non dctinct, and the issue was tried by a jury.
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Ai’yeal from Whitt, Circuit Court. -This was an action of detinue, instituted in the Pulaski Circuit-Court, by Hynson against Terry, for a negro boy named Daniel, and transferred to White Circuit Court, when White county was created. Terry pleaded non dctinct, and the issue was tried by a jury. The testimony, as embodied in the bill of exceptions, is as follows: Morgan Magness deposed, tha¡t about twenty years previous to the trial, in the State of Illinois, his father, Jonathan Magness, gave to Terry and bis wife, (she being a daughter, of said Jonathan,) a negro, girl named. Nancy, betsyccn…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, Judge
The defendant pleaded the general issue, upon which he had a verdict in the court below. The plaintiffs then moved for a new trial, but the motion was overruled; to which opinion they filed their exceptions and appealed to this court. All the material facts of the case are spread upon the record; and the substance of the proof is, that about twenty years ago Jonathan Magness, who is the father of the defendant’s wife, and grand-father of the. plaintiff’s wife, gave to his daughter and the defendant, a negro girl-by the name of Nancy, about eight or ten years old, with the express…
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