Lenox v. Pike
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Arkansas Circuit Court. This was an action of detinue, commenced in the court below by Pike and wife and Smith and wife, against Lenox, for certain slaves. The declaration was in the usual form. The defendant pleaded the general issue, to which the plaintiff joined issue, and the case was tried by a jury. The jury found the slaves to be the property of the plaintiffs, found their values respectively, amounting in the aggregate to $3,500, and $2,710 for their hire.
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Error to Arkansas Circuit Court. This was an action of detinue, commenced in the court below by Pike and wife and Smith and wife, against Lenox, for certain slaves. The declaration was in the usual form. The defendant pleaded the general issue, to which the plaintiff joined issue, and the case was tried by a jury. The jury found the slaves to be the property of the plaintiffs, found their values respectively, amounting in the aggregate to $3,500, and $2,710 for their hire. Immediately after the entry of the judgment, in the transcript of the record, follows a bill of exceptions, staling…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, Judge
In inspecting the transcript of the record sent up to this court, we find a paper appended to it, which purports to be a statement of the testimony given on the part of the plaintiffs in the case of Albert Pike and wife and O. H. Smith and wife, against John H. Lennox, in an action of detinue.
This statement details the evidence of Terrence Farrelly and Frederick Notrebo, and is signed by E. L. Johnson, Judge, and is marked filed October 12th, 1838, G. W. Stokes, Clerk.
The assignment of errors questions the correctness of the opinion of the court below, in overruling the defendant’s motion for…
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