Bowman v. McKleroy & Bradford

In December, 1855, James R. Bisland, one of the defendants, resided on the Mississippi river, a few miles above Natchez, in the State of Mississippi.

He was then the owner of fifty-eight slaves, who figure in this suit, and which appear to have then constituted the whole of his property.

These slaves were heavily mortgaged in the State of Mississippi to various creditors.

On. the night of the 17th of December, 1855, Bisland, without the knowledge or consent of his creditors, placed all these slaves on a passing steamer, landed them the next day more than a hundred miles below, on the Louisiana…