Miller v. Belmonti

The plaintiff sues for her freedom, on the ground that she was born free, and of European parentage. She asserts that her father was Daniel Miller, and her mother Dorothea Miller; that they emigrated from Germany in 1817 or 1818, with herself, and two other children; that her mother died upon the passage, and her father soon after their arrival. She sets forth in her petition many things connected with her biography, and that of her father, which are unsupported by evidence, and which we regard as wholly immaterial to the great question which the pleadings present, to wit, whether the…