Starke's Executors v. Littlepage
Court of Appeals of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Superior Court of Hanover, where the executors of Starke brought an action of detinue against Littlepage, to recover certain slaves. Issue was joined, on the plea of non detinet; and the jury found a verdict for the defendant.
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This was an appeal from the Superior Court of Hanover, where the executors of Starke brought an action of detinue against Littlepage, to recover certain slaves. Issue was joined, on the plea of non detinet; and the jury found a verdict for the defendant. At the trial, the plaintiffs filed a bill of exceptions to the introduction of evidence on the part of the defendant, to prove that the alleged sale, from the latter to the former, was a fraudulent transaction; but the Court suffered the evidence to go to the jury. The whole case is so fully staled in the opinions which follow, that a…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Green.
This was an action by the appellants against the appellee, for sundry slaves. Upon the trial of the .issue of non detinet, the plaintiffs gave in evidence an execution of Fi. Fa. in the name of Mary Norvell against John C. Littlepage, (the defendant in this cause,) Thomas Starke, (the testator of the plaintiffs in this cause,) and John Slarke, on which the sheriff returned on the 151 h of December, 1798, “ made on this execution by the sale of negro Judy and her two children, Nancy and Maria, purchased by Thomas Starke, forty-five pounds.” They also produced several papers in the…
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