Rankin v. Lydia

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action of trespass, assault, battery, and false imprisonment; and the issue is made upon the freedom or slavery of Lydia, the plaintiff in the court below.

Lydia was born a slave in Kentucky, in the year 1805, *468and belonged to John Warrick, a citizen of this state, who removed hence in the year 1807 to the late territory of Indiana, where he settled, shortly after the 17th September of that year, together with Lydia and her mother, whom he took with him, and whom he kept till the 6th of December, 1814, when he sold his right to Lydia in…