Wallace v. Brown

This was replevin in the detinet, for a slave, brought by the appellee against the appellant in the Crawford Circuit Court. Plea, non-detimt: verdict and judgment for appellee. Appellant moved for a new trial on the ground of the insufficiency of the proof to sustain the verdict, which was overruled, and he excepted, setting out the following facts:

In the month of May, 1851, appellee bought the slave in controversy from one Bishop, and in the month of November following, he hired her to Bishop for the term of one year. In the month of May, 1855, the same slave was levied upon and offered for…