Ramsay v. Barcroft

This is an action of detinue brought by Ramsay against Barcroif, to recover a negro woman slave. The declaration contains two counts. The first is a general count,, the second is special. The defendant pleaded the general issue to the first county and demurred to the second, and had his demurrer sustained. Upon the trial of the issue joined on the first count, the facts as preservedlby a hill of exceptions, are substantially those set out in the-seeond countand appearto he,that one “Albert Boone being the owner of a certain negro woman slave, in the year 1827, delivered her into the…