Dabney v. Taliaferro
Court of Appeals of Virginia
This action was originally brought in the Superior Court of King William county.*' It was an action of trespass on the ease, brought by Taliaferro against Dabney, as Sheriff and jailor of the county of King William, to recover the value of a negro man slave, the property of the plaintiff, who was confined in the jail of the said county, as a runaway; which slave was rendered entirely useless to his master, by neglect of duty, on the part of the defendant, as Sheriff and…
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This action was originally brought in the Superior Court of King William county.*' It was an action of trespass on the ease, brought by Taliaferro against Dabney, as Sheriff and jailor of the county of King William, to recover the value of a negro man slave, the property of the plaintiff, who was confined in the jail of the said county, as a runaway; which slave was rendered entirely useless to his master, by neglect of duty, on the part of the defendant, as Sheriff and jailor, in not furnishing diet, fire, and bed covering. The declaration charges, that Dabney, fay the law and custom of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Carr
delivered his opinion.*
Taliaferro had a negro man committed to the jail of" King William county, on the 7th of January, 1821, as a runaway. The slave having become frost-bitten, while in jail, Taliaferro brought an action on the case against the Sheriff, charging that the Sheriff is, by the law of the land, jailor, and as such, bound to furnish necessary food, covering, fire, &c. to all prisoners: that the defendant, as Sheriff, received into the jail of the county, his slave committed as a runaway; and that he, and those acting for him, so negligently and carelessly conducted…
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