Newson v. Adams

The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court, delivered by

Mathews, J.

This suit is prosecuted by the wife of Moses Newsom, with his assistance, to recover from the defendant, a negro woman and her child, which she claims as her paraphernal property, and also damages for their detention. Judgment was rendered in her favor in the court below, from which the defendant appealed.

The title set up by the plaintiff, to the slaves now in contest, is based on an exchange made in the state of Mississippi, with her uncle, Robert Singleton, in which she gave for them a negro man named Caesar,…