Cable v. Davenport's Heirs

The plaintiff seeks to enforce her tacit mortgage on a slave sold by her husband to the defendants’ ancestor, and render the same liable to satisfy a judgement which she obtained against her said husband for the restitution of her dotal and paraphernal property.

The defendants pleaded the general issue, and that they were not at the time of the answer in possession of the slave, nor were they at the time of the service of citation, nor at any time since; and that they are not owners of said slave, nor were they at the time of said service; nor at any time since.

There was a judgement for the…