Harrison v. Hicks
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error from the County Court of Bibb County, Nathan Hicks brought an action of trover in the Circuit Court, against J. J. Harrison and Absalom Harrison, for the value of a slave by the name of Harry. The defendants pleaded not guilty; and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of seven hundred dollars.
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Error from the County Court of Bibb County, Nathan Hicks brought an action of trover in the Circuit Court, against J. J. Harrison and Absalom Harrison, for the value of a slave by the name of Harry. The defendants pleaded not guilty; and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum of seven hundred dollars. From the bill of exceptions, taken in the case, it appears, that the slave Harry had been sold on an execution against Edward Hicks and Nathan Hicks, the latter being the security of the former : That Harry was taken as the property of Nathan Hicks; and purchased at the sale by…
1Opinion of the Court
By Mr. Justice Thornton :
This-was an-action of trover, brought by the defendant, in error, to recover damages for the conversion of a negro man slave, (the property of said defendant) by the plaintiffs in error. The errors assigned, arc for the refusal of variops charges requested by the said plaintiffs to be given by the court below, to the jury; as also, for charging as the bill of exceptions sets forth.
The evidence, to which reference is had, in the instructions given, and refused, is substantially — that the slave sued for, had been, some time prior to the institution of the present…
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