Irwin v. Wells

Action of detinue for a slave — -judgment for plaintiff in the court below.

This case is presented to the Court by a hill of exceptions — the decimation has only one general count. The hill of exceptions shows, that in 1806, in December, in the State of Kentucky, one James H. Audrain married the daughter of Wells, and that, in that same year, Audrain moved to Port Wayne, and took the slave in question with him. That when Audrain was about to leave Kentucky for Port Wayne, with this slave, Wells, the plaintiff, called on some of his family to hear witness that the slave, Kate, was only lent to…