Daniel v. Cochran's administrator

OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyie.

This is an appeal taken by the defendant from a judgment for ike plaintiff, in an action of detinue for a slave.

The plaintiff claims the slave by a purchase made by his intestate from Rona Mahan, on the 21st of August 1812, in the county of Barren. The defendant holds the slave as a purchaser at a sale made by the sheriff of barren county, in virtue of a fierifacias, bearing date the 22d of February 1814, which issued on a judgment obtained by the defendant against Rona Mahan in the iireckenridge circuit court: and hfe contends that the sale was legal,…