Estill v. Fort

Fort sued Estill and wife, in Trover, for a slave named Dick ; and the circuit court having granted a new trial, on the ground that, in the opinion of that court, the evidence was insufficient to sustain the first verdict against the wife, another verdict was rendered, at a subsequent term, against both husband and wife, for five hundred seventy one dollars forty eight cents, in damages ; for which, the court, after overruling a motion for another new trial, gave judgment: to reverse which, this writ of error is prosecuted.

The counsel for the plaintiffs urges four principal grounds for…