Gordon v. Longest
Supreme Court of the United States
ÍN error to the Court of Appeals of the state of Kentucky. In the Jefferson Circuit Court of the state 0/ Kentucky, James Longest, of the state of.
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ÍN error to the Court of Appeals of the state of Kentucky. In the Jefferson Circuit Court of the state 0/ Kentucky, James Longest, of the state of. Kentucky, instituted an action against John Gordon, to recover the value of á certain slave belonging to him, which John Gordon, who was commander of the steamboat Guyandotte, then proceeding from Louisville up the Ohio river to Cincinnati, was alleged to have taken on board the Guyandotte from the Indiana shore or side of the Ohio, as a passenger to Cincinnati. . John-Gordon was a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania; and, proceeding according to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLean
This is awrit-of error- to the Court of Appeals of the state of Ken-, tucky,'under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act of 1789..An action!was commenced in the Circuit Court of-Kentucky by the defendant in.error, against the plaintiff, to recover the value of a 'certain- slave which the defendant took on board a steamboat, at Louisville, of which he was master, as a passenger; a&d conveyed him out of the state, in violation of the statutes of Kentucky.
By an act of the Kentucky legislature of 1824, to prevent the escape and removal of slaves, the masters of vessels, &c., receiving…
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