Bryan v. Walton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Bill for new trial in Houston Superior Court, and tried before Judge O. A. Loohjrane, at August Term, 1863. To the April term, 1851, of Houston Superior Court, Hugh Walton, as administrator of Joseph Nunez, a free person of color, commenced an action of trover against Seaborn C. Bryan to recover damages for the alleged conversion of certain negro slaves, to-wit: Patience, a woman about twenty-eight years old, and her children', Sam, a boy about fourteen years old, Josiah, a…
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Bill for new trial in Houston Superior Court, and tried before Judge O. A. Loohjrane, at August Term, 1863. To the April term, 1851, of Houston Superior Court, Hugh Walton, as administrator of Joseph Nunez, a free person of color, commenced an action of trover against Seaborn C. Bryan to recover damages for the alleged conversion of certain negro slaves, to-wit: Patience, a woman about twenty-eight years old, and her children', Sam, a boy about fourteen years old, Josiah, a boy about twelve years old, Louanah, alias Jane, alias Vienna, a girl about ten years old, James, a boy about seven…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court
Lumpkin, C. J.,
delivering the opinion.
I have carefully reviewed the voluminous documents connected with this case, and find nothing to raise a doubt as to the correctness of the conclusion to which the Court came in its decision, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Judge. No case has been produced, we presume none can be found, in which a judgment of a Supreme Court had been reversed in an Inferior Court upon the grouhd of accident and mistake. Establish such a precedent, and the circle of litigation is complete, the end of it unattainable. Notwithstanding our Constitution has…
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