Spurrier's Heirs v. Parker
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. Rep. Argued — 1. That the negro girl Poll, named in the deed of Peaco, of 3d August, 1798, was not free until the, 25th day of January, 1814, and that her issue, •born before that day, are slaves. Such is the law ■as decided by this court in the case of Ned, fyc. vs..
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APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. Rep. Argued — 1. That the negro girl Poll, named in the deed of Peaco, of 3d August, 1798, was not free until the, 25th day of January, 1814, and that her issue, •born before that day, are slaves. Such is the law ■as decided by this court in the case of Ned, fyc. vs.. Beall, 2 Bibb, 298; Jamison vs. Emilia, 5 Dana, 207; Esther, fyc. vs. Askin’s heirs, 3 B. Monroe, 60. The children follow the condition of the mother, as repeatedly decided by this court, and reiterated in the case of Johnson’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Crenshaw
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Emily Parker and others, persons of color, brought this suit for freedom, and base their rights thereto upon the following instrument:
“I, Samuel Peaco, of the city of Annapolis, in Anne Arundel county, in the state of Maryland, do hereby set free from bondage the following negroes, purchased by me of John Callahan and Mary Mann, viz: negro woman Rose, on the 25th day of July; 1802; negro girl Kitty, on the 25th day of July, 1817, and negro girl Harriet, on the 25th day of July, 1825; also the negro girl Poll, which I purchased at Col. Chew’s…
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