Richter v. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.

1. When on the trial of a claim case the burden of proof was on the plaintiff in execution, and the evidence in its behalf failed, to show that the property in dispute belonged to the defendant in execution at the time of the levy, a verdict finding it subject was unwarranted.

2. When in such a ease the 'claimant, though a minor, showed by uncontradicted evidence that he had been manumitted by his father, and had raised the crop levied upon on land rented from the owner, who was not his father, and paid for his own supplies, his claim was not defeated by the mere fact that his father was the…