Jordan v. Gray
Supreme Court of Alabama
Eb.Ror to the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa.. Tried before ■ the Hon. John J. Woodward. Detinue for a slave by Sealy Jordan, wife of Elijah Jordan... who sues by her next friend, Charles Jordan, against Gray. A demurrer to the declaration was sustained by the court below..
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Eb.Ror to the Circuit Court of Tallapoosa.. Tried before ■ the Hon. John J. Woodward. Detinue for a slave by Sealy Jordan, wife of Elijah Jordan... who sues by her next friend, Charles Jordan, against Gray. A demurrer to the declaration was sustained by the court below.. Two declarations are set out in the record, to the second of" which the following certificate of the clerk is prefixed: “ After the adjournment of the court plaintiff proposed to file the following as the amended declaration under the leave given to amend,., and to which the second demurrer was sustained, it then…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
Two declarations appear to have been copied in tlic record filed in this case. The clerk certifies that the last declaration was filed after the judgment- on the demurrer in fa*619vor of the defendant, and after the adjournment of the court, consequently this court can only notice the first as properly a part of the record.
The declaration commences in these words, “ Sealy Jordan, wife of Elijah Jordan, who sues by her next friend, Charles Jordan, plaintiff,” &c., and then proceeds with the usual count in detinue for a negro man slave, and does not aver any legal title to, or separate property in…
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