Dearman v. Dearman
Supreme Court of Alabama
EiutoRito the Circuit,Court.of Sumter. Trover by the plaintiff against the defendants in error for -two .slaves. ■The¡plaintiff, William Dearman proved on the trial, that his father, one Jonathan Dearman, gave him, in 1812, in.exchange for another negro, a negro woman named Lucy, tbe-mother.pf the negro womap Dice, and grandmother of the boy Sid.ro, sued ■for,in this action, both of whom were born after the exchange —that plaintiff and his father lived together until about…
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EiutoRito the Circuit,Court.of Sumter. Trover by the plaintiff against the defendants in error for -two .slaves. ■The¡plaintiff, William Dearman proved on the trial, that his father, one Jonathan Dearman, gave him, in 1812, in.exchange for another negro, a negro woman named Lucy, tbe-mother.pf the negro womap Dice, and grandmother of the boy Sid.ro, sued ■for,in this action, both of whom were born after the exchange —that plaintiff and his father lived together until about .the year 1818, when they removed to Florida, carrying with them the negro woman Lucy and her children — that the slaves…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
The bill of exceptions found in the record contains a great deal of superfluous matter — the material facts may be thus shortly stated:
The two slaves in dispute, with some others, were, by a bill of sale executed in Florida, in 1830, by Jonathan Dearman, the father, and the plaintiff William, his son, conveyed to Solomon, another son, and husband of the defendant, Anna Dear-man, upon the consideration, as expressed in the bill» of sale, of thirteen hundred dollars. It further appears, that at the time of the conveyance there was a parol agreement that Solomon should retain possession of the…
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