Legal Opinion
Case v. Woolley
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided October 31, 1837PublishedCited by 4 opinions
From the Louisville Chancery Court. Chancery.
1Opinion of the Court
'Chief Justice Robertson
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
A. R. Woolley — whose slave, named William Gordon, had, without his consent, been taken (in violation of the statutes of this State, of 1824 — 1 ¡Stat. Law, '259 — 60,) on hoard the steam boat Lancaster, from Louisville in Kentucky, the place of his residence, to New Orleans, whence he 'had fled to some place unknown, so as to have escaped, vigilant search and enquiry after him— proceeded, by bill in chancery in the Chancellor’s Court for the said city of Louisville, to attach the said boat, for the purpose of subjecting it to the…
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