Weimer v. Sloane

(charging jury). This action is founded on the seventh section of the act of congress, of the ISth of September, 1S50 [9 Stat 462], known as the “Fugitive Slave Act,” and is brought to recover the value of three persons named in the declaration, tvho, it is alleged, were the slaves of the plaintiff, owing him labor or service as such, in the state of Kentucky, and who escaped from him into the state of Ohio. There are several counts in the declaration, but as a verdict is insisted on, upon the third count only, charging the defendant with having aided, assisted, or abetted, in the escape of…