Mason v. Baker

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a bill filed by the appellant, to recover the possession of sundry slaves from the appellees, and to restrain them, in the mean time, from removing the slaves beyond the jurisdiction of the court. The appellants as-*209Sett their right to the slaves in question, as the heirs of William Hamlet, under and by virtue of a bill of sale executed to him by the appellee, Martin Baker, bearing date the 14th of February, 1787, and recorded in the county court of Halifax county and state of Virginia, and they al-ledge-that the other appellees…